Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >> Has anyone given much thought as to perhaps we could just drop multiple
> >> inheritance from Postgres?
> 
> > I am for it.  Multiple inheritance is more of a mess than a help.
> 
> I'm not agin it ... but if that's the lay of the land then we have
> no need to apply a last-minute catalog reformatting to fix a
> multiple-inheritance bug.  This patch is off the "must fix for 7.3"
> list, no?

I don't think a few days before beta2 is the time to be making such
decisions.  I think we have to keep the course and open the discussion
in 7.4.  Sorry.

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