Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns

(2010/02/02 23:50), Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/2/1 KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>:
>>> I'm making a general statement - if something is BROKEN (like the
>>> rename case we just dealt with), we should look at fixing it. If it's
>>> just something that could be cleaned up or done more nicely, we should
>>> leave it alone for now.
>>
>> OK, Please forget the second patch.
>>
>> The former patch (pgsql-fix-inherit-attype.1.patch) just fixes the matter
>> in ALTER COLUMN TYPE case. Do you think it is a reasonable change for
>> the 9.0 release?
>
> After reviewing this, I see that it doesn't really make sense to fix
> ALTER COLUMN TYPE without rewriting ADD COLUMN to use
> ATSimpleRecursion(). If we're going to go to the trouble of
> refactoring the ATPrepCmd() interface, we certainly want to get as
> much benefit out of that as we can.
>
> That having been said... I'm leery about undertaking a substantial
> refactoring of this code at this point in the release cycle. We have
> less than two weeks remaining before the end of the final CommitFest,
> so it doesn't seem like a good time to be starting new projects,
> especially because we still have 16 patches that need we need to grind
> through in less than 2 weeks, and I want to give some of those my
> attention, too. So I would like to push this out to 9.1 and revisit
> it when I can give it the amount of time that I believe is needed to
> do it right.

OK, I'll work on remained part of this fix in the v9.1.

Thanks,
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OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>