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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: 2010-01-03T19:06:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Jan 3, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> In practice the reasonable engineering alternatives may just be to do
> what KaiGai's patch does, or to do nothing.  In that case I think a  
> good
> argument can be made for the latter.  Nobody has ever complained about
> this from the field AFAIR; but we might get complaints if we disable
> cases that used to work fine.

Maybe. The current behavior of allowing the rename but then breaking  
queries certainly isn't awesome.  I think  if someone is willing to  
implement a more careful check we should accept it.

...Robert