On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm thinking about ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN working properly when > > child tables already contain the column. > > There are two cases: one when specifying ALTER TABLE ONLY, and other > > when specifying recursive (not ONLY).
> I don't like resetting attislocal here. If you do that, then DROPping > the parent column doesn't return you to the prior state. I think I gave > this example before, but consider Huh, I don't know where I got the idea you were (or someone else was?) in the position that attislocal should be reset. I'll clean everything up and submit the patch I had originally made. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>) "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end." (2nd Commandment for C programmers) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
