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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, 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: 2010-02-01 18:31:10
Message-ID: 8930.1265049070@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have cleaned up and simplified this patch. Attached is the version
> I intend to commit. Changes:

Minor suggestions:

I think the names like "rel_parents" would read better as
"rel_numparents" etc. As-is, the reader could be forgiven for expecting
that this will be a list of parent relation OIDs or some such.

The new loop added within find_all_inheritors could really do with an
addition to the comments, along the line of "If a child is already
seen, increment the corresponding numparents count".

I don't trust the proposed "order by attrelid" business in the
regression test --- once in a blue moon, that will fail because the
OID counter wrapped around mid-test, and we'll get an unreproducible
bug report. I'd suggest order by attrelid::regclass::text.

Looks sane otherwise.

regards, tom lane

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