Re: ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm thinking about ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN working properly when
> > child tables already contain the column.
> > There are two cases: one when specifying ALTER TABLE ONLY, and other
> > when specifying recursive (not ONLY).

> I don't like resetting attislocal here. If you do that, then DROPping
> the parent column doesn't return you to the prior state. I think I gave
> this example before, but consider

Huh, I don't know where I got the idea you were (or someone else was?)
in the position that attislocal should be reset. I'll clean everything
up and submit the patch I had originally made.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await
thee at its end." (2nd Commandment for C programmers)