Re: Diffrent column ordering after dump/restore tables with INHERITS

So there are no simple way to do it right, and it will be not fixed? Will
this bug appear in todo list?

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:

> 2010/2/26 Oleg Serov <serovov(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> > Up! Anybody will answer about the patch?
>
> The patch causes the inheritance history to be lost. If you
> subsequently drop the column form the parent it'll be kept on the
> child because it was explicitly declared when you created the child.
> In the original structure if you dropped the column from the parent it
> would be dropped from the child because it was an inherited column.
>
> Inheritance is in a kind of no-mans land. It's not good enough to be
> an important feature anyone cares enough about to make it work
> properly and it's not shoddy enough that it's worth removing. I'm sure
> there are people using it effectively despite the caveats and rough
> edges.
>
> --
> greg
>

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