Re: Typed table DDL loose ends

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Typed table DDL loose ends
Date: 2011-04-14 18:23:49
Message-ID: BANLkTikEUC2xTQw+J173dJpobh12ZKkeyA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>> I guess my gut feeling is that it would make more sense to forbid it
>> outright for 9.1, and we can look at relaxing that restriction later
>> if we're so inclined.
>>
>> Much as with the problem Tom fixed in commit
>> eb51af71f241e8cb199790dee9ad246bb36b3287, I'm concerned that there may
>> be other cases that we're not thinking of right now, and while we
>> could find them all and fix them, the amount of functionality gained
>> is fairly marginal, and I don't really want to hold up the release
>> while we bug-swat.
>
> Symmetry was the best cause I could find to continue allowing it, and your case
> in favor of reducing the bug surface is more compelling.  Let's forbid it.

OK. Care to propose a patch?

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Robert Haas
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