Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

Tom Lane wrote:
>I just had a discussion with a user who doesn't want to update from
>6.4.something to 7.0.* because 7.0 broke a feature he likes, namely
>the ability to change the default value of a column inherited from
>a parent table. It seems that in pre-7.0 Postgres, this works:
>
>create table one(id int default 1, descr text);
>create table two(id int default 2, tag text) inherits (one);
>
>with the net effect that table "two" has just one "id" column with
>default value 2.
...
>The question of the day: should we put this back the way it was?
>If so, should we try to squeeze it into 7.1, or wait another release
>cycle? (I can see about equally good arguments for considering this
>a feature addition or a bug fix...) Should there be a NOTICE about
>the duplicated column name, or is the old silent treatment okay?

I would very much like to have this feature restored; I think there should
be a NOTICE, just in case the duplication is caused by mistyping.

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