Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> tgl@postgresql.org writes:
>> Change StoreCatalogInheritance() to work from a list of parent relation
>> OIDs rather than names. Aside from being simpler and faster, this way
>> doesn't blow up in the face of 'create temp table foo () inherits (foo)'.
>> Which is a rather odd thing to do, but it seems some people want to.
> Just wondering, is the "odd" thing here the 'temp', the empty column list,
> or 2 times "foo"?
The latter. The failure case was
create table foo (...);
create temp table foo (...) inherits (foo);
the problem being that the temp table name mapping for the temp foo
was installed before we were done looking up its ancestors.
regards, tom lane
