> AFAICS, what Ryan is after would be better served by a separate tool that > would produce a "diff" of the two tables' schemas.
Related to the other idea of seeing the problems that exist in all the > columns (instead of one column at a time), I think it'd be reasonable to > have a SRF that spit out everything you'd need to fix to allow inheritance > to be added. A schema diff won't know what specifically has to match, but > our code does. > > Sure, I think that's totally true that I could just make a Set-Returning-Function (that's what SRF stands for right?) that would accomplish this. I'll try that path instead for now. Thanks guys! Ryan