Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Thanks Bruce, but I think I've got it sorted now. One weird thing is that
> although I added it as being false in pg_attribute.h, I get these tuples
> having attisdropped set to true by initdb.

It sounds to me like you've failed to make sure that the field is
initialized properly when a pg_attribute row is dynamically created.
Let's see... did you fix the static FormData_pg_attribute rows near
the top of heap.c? Does TupleDescInitEntry() know about initializing
the field? (I wonder why it doesn't memset() the whole row to zero
anyway...)

pg_attribute is very possibly the most ticklish system catalog
to add a column to. I'd suggest looking through every single use of
some other pg_attribute column, perhaps attstattarget or attnotnull,
to make sure you're initializing attisdropped everywhere it should be.

regards, tom lane