Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/11/4 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>> KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>>> I think we should not allow to rename a column with attinhcount > 1.

>> I think we should fix ALTER TABLE to cope with multiple inheritance.

> I'd be interested to see how this should work.

Yeah.  I don't think a "fix" is possible, because there is no
non-astonishing way for it to behave.  I think KaiGai is right that
forbidding the rename is the best solution.
        regards, tom lane