Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns

2010/2/1 KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>:
> (2010/02/02 11:09), Tom Lane wrote:
>> KaiGai Kohei<kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>  writes:
>>> The attached one also clean up ATPrepAddColumn() and ATExecAddColumn() code,
>>> not only ATPrepAlterColumnType(), according to what I mentioned above.
>>
>> What exactly do you claim is wrong with the ADD COLUMN case?
>
> ADD COLUMN case works correctly, but it takes unnecessary loops,
> because the find_all_inheritors() didn't provide the value to be
> set on the new pg_attribute.attinhcount.
>
> I'm saying it can be rewritten in more graceful manner using the
> new expected_parents argument.

The subject line of this thread is getting less and less appropriate
to the content thereof.

I am not in favor of doing anything for 9.0 that is not a bug fix.

...Robert