From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general |
Date: | 2004-12-12 07:11:35 |
Message-ID: | 41BBEF27.9050308@samurai.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the rowtype
> of an inheritance child table is binary-compatible with the rowtype of
> its parent, invent an expression node type that does the conversion
> correctly. Fixes the new bug exhibited by Kris Shannon as well as a
> lot of old bugs that would only show up when using multiple inheritance
> or after altering the parent table.
Attached is a patch adding regression tests for this change. I'll apply
it to HEAD later tonight or tomorrow baring any objections. I just used
the two test cases posted in the -hackers thread; Tom, if you have any
other test cases for this behavior in mind, just let me know.
-Neil
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inh_rowtype_cast_test-1.patch | text/x-patch | 1.8 KB |
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