On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:44:53PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:57 -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
> > * Inheriting from a typed table blocks further type DDL
> > CREATE TYPE t AS (x int);
> > CREATE TABLE parent OF t;
> > CREATE TABLE child () INHERITS (parent);
> > ALTER TYPE t ADD ATTRIBUTE y int CASCADE;
> > -- ERROR: column must be added to child tables too
> > We ought to just set INH_YES on the downstream command in ATTypedTableRecursion.
> > If we get to that point, the user did choose ALTER TYPE CASCADE; it seems fair
> > to assume he'd want inheritance recursion rather than a later error.
>
> Agreed.
Patch attached for that. Apart from a comment, a test case and a doc update, it
turned out to be a one-liner.