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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(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 02:31:01
Message-ID: 603c8f071002011831v57b22404xd1f32240c85f1965@mail.gmail.com
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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.

...Robert

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