Re: ADD/DROP INHERITS

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris(dot)kings-lynne(at)calorieking(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ADD/DROP INHERITS
Date: 2006-06-09 01:17:27
Message-ID: 4488CC27.8030707@calorieking.com
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> I forget whether the developer managed to get it working without doing any
> table rewriting. In theory the table just needs to know that records that are
> "missing" that column in the null bitmap should behave as if they have the
> default value. But I seem to recall some headaches with that approach.

The problem is if you then change the default.

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