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

KaiGai Kohei wrote:

>   postgres=# SELECT * FROM t2;
>   ERROR:  could not find inherited attribute "b" of relation "t3"
> 
> Because t3.b is also inherited from the t2, but ALTER TABLE does not
> care about multiple inherited columns well.
> 
> 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.

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