Re: patch for check constraints using multiple inheritance

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm looking at ATPrepAddColumn right now, where there is actually some
>> comments about getting the right attinhcount in the case of multiple
>> inherited children, but it's the first time I'm looking at this part of
>> PostgreSQL and it needs some time to sink in. It looks a bit like at the
>> place of the comment /* child should see column as singly inherited */,
>> maybe the recursion could be stopped there as well, i.e. not only setting
>> inhcount to 1, but actually adding the child relation one time to the
>> wqueue.
>
> I believe the crux is to stop double recursion from a parent in
> ATOneLevelRecursion. I did a quick test by adding a globally defined
>
> static List *visitedrels = NIL;

I agree that's the crux of the problem, but I can't see solving it
with a global variable. I realize you were just testing...

> PS: forgot to say thanks for looking into this problem earlier in the
> thread. Thanks!

yw

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