Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance
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Msg-id GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOAEFJCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> That seems right, but the problem I have with it is that the resulting
> state of c.f1 is attisinherited = 1.  This means that you cannot drop
> c.f1.  It seems to me that we should have this behavior:

Has anyone given much thought as to perhaps we could just drop multiple
inheritance from Postgres?  There are people using single inheritance - but
how many actually use multiple inheritance?  If we dumped it we could use
the proposed all-child-tables-in-one-relation idea, and everything would
become very easy...

Chris



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