Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> The decision at hand is whether to apply a patch.  You cannot say "we're
> not deciding now", because that is a decision...

Yes.  I am saying we should not assume we are going to remove multiple
inheritance.  We should apply the patch and make things a good as they
can be for 7.3.

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