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

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have cleaned up and simplified this patch.  Attached is the version
>> I intend to commit.  Changes:
>
> Minor suggestions:
>
> I think the names like "rel_parents" would read better as
> "rel_numparents" etc.  As-is, the reader could be forgiven for expecting
> that this will be a list of parent relation OIDs or some such.

I thought about that but ended up being lazy and leaving it the way I
had it.  I'll go be un-lazy.

> The new loop added within find_all_inheritors could really do with an
> addition to the comments, along the line of "If a child is already
> seen, increment the corresponding numparents count".

OK.

> I don't trust the proposed "order by attrelid" business in the
> regression test --- once in a blue moon, that will fail because the
> OID counter wrapped around mid-test, and we'll get an unreproducible
> bug report.  I'd suggest order by attrelid::regclass::text.

Wow, didn't think of that.  Will change.

> Looks sane otherwise.

Thanks for the review.

...Robert