Tom Lane dijo:
> I think we could make all these cases work if we replaced attisinherited
> with *two* columns, a boolean attislocal(ly defined) and a count of
> (direct) inheritances. DROP ONLY would have the effect of decrementing
> the count and setting attislocal to true in each direct child; recursive
> DROP would decrement the count and then drop if count is 0 *and*
> attislocal is not set. At the start of a recursion, we'd allow DROP
> only if count is 0 (and, presumably, attislocal is true, else the column
> would not be there...).
The cases you presented are really tricky. I'll work today on the
attislocal and attinhcount patch; I hope to have it ready later today
for review and inclusion before beta2.
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