Re: inherit support for foreign tables

(2014/12/18 7:04), Tom Lane wrote:
> Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> Attached are updated patches.  Patch fdw-inh-5.patch has been created on
>> top of patch fdw-chk-5.patch.  Patch fdw-chk-5.patch is basically the
>> same as the previous one fdw-chk-4.patch, but I slightly modified that
>> one.  The changes are the following.
>> * added to foreign_data.sql more tests for your comments.
>> * revised docs on ALTER FOREIGN TABLE a bit further.
> 
> I've committed fdw-chk-5.patch with some minor further adjustments;
> the most notable one was that I got rid of the error check prohibiting
> NO INHERIT, which did not seem to me to have any value.  Attaching such
> a clause won't have any effect, but so what?
> 
> Have not looked at the other patch yet.

Thanks!

I added the error check because the other patch, fdw-inh-5.patch,
doesn't allow foreign tables to be inherited and so it seems more
consistent at least to me to do so.

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita