Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance

Tom Lane dijo:

> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> > I've come upon a misbehaviour of drop column, where drop column
> > unconditionally drops inherited column from child tables.
> > What it should do is to check if the same column is not inherited from
> > other parents and drop it only when it is not
>
> Hm. Seems like attisinherited should have been a count, not a boolean.

I'll try to make a fix and submit.

> Is anyone sufficiently excited about this issue to force an initdb to
> fix it?

If people thinks it's important, the fix can be integrated. If not, it
can wait until 7.4.

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