Re: BUG #9555: pg_dump for tables with inheritance recreates the table with the wrong order of columns

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> majid@apsalar.com wrote:
>> Reproduction case:
>>
>> create table A(a int, b int, c int);
>> create table B(a int, c int);
>> alter table A inherit B;

> I wonder if the real fix here is to have ALTER / INHERIT error out of
> the columns in B are not a prefix of those in A.

Years ago, we sweated quite a lot of blood to make these cases work.
I'm not thrilled about throwing away all that effort because one person
doesn't like the behavior.

            regards, tom lane