Re: Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

At 20:40 31/03/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> You are correct; flagInhAttrs in common.c does the work, and it should be
>> easy to change. At the moment it extracts all tables attrs then looks for
>> an attr with the same name in any parent table. We can extend this to check
>> NOT NULL and DEFAULT. Should I also check TYPEDEFN - can that be changed?
>
>We presently disallow change of type in child tables, but you might as
>well check that too, if it's just one more strcmp ...

Looks like it; and just to confirm, based on previous messages, I assume I
should look at the parents from right to left?


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