Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns

From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns
Date: 2010-02-02 02:39:07
Message-ID: 4B67904B.90505@ak.jp.nec.com
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(2010/02/02 11:31), Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/2/1 KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>:
>> (2010/02/02 11:09), Tom Lane wrote:
>>> KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> writes:
>>>> The attached one also clean up ATPrepAddColumn() and ATExecAddColumn() code,
>>>> not only ATPrepAlterColumnType(), according to what I mentioned above.
>>>
>>> What exactly do you claim is wrong with the ADD COLUMN case?
>>
>> ADD COLUMN case works correctly, but it takes unnecessary loops,
>> because the find_all_inheritors() didn't provide the value to be
>> set on the new pg_attribute.attinhcount.
>>
>> I'm saying it can be rewritten in more graceful manner using the
>> new expected_parents argument.
>
> The subject line of this thread is getting less and less appropriate
> to the content thereof.
>
> I am not in favor of doing anything for 9.0 that is not a bug fix.

Are you talking about ATPrepAddColumn() only? Or both of ATPrepAddColumn()
and ATPrepAlterColumnType()?

My motivation to clean up ATPrepAddColumn() is less than the bugfix.

Thanks,
--
OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>

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