On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:27:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Philip: the rule that pg_dump needs to apply w.r.t. defaults for
> inherited fields is that if an inherited field has a default and
> either (a) no parent table supplies a default, or (b) any parent
> table supplies a default different from the child's, then pg_dump
> had better emit the child field explicitly.
The rule above appears to work even if inherited-default conflicts
are not taken as an error, but just result in a derived-table column
with no default.
Nathan Myers
ncm@zembu.com