At 07:35 PM 1/26/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>On 2000-01-24, Oliver Elphick mentioned:
>
>> I would like to work on improving implementation of inheritance,
>> especially with regard to referential integrity. I suspect there are
>> a number of issues that may be related and will need to be done together.
>
>What I really consider a problem, and it would be great if you could
>tackle that, is that there is no real standard that all of this does or
>even could follow. For example, I wrote the other day that depending on
>which way you see it, the behaviour of alter table x* add colum might be
>considered right.
Are you basing this on your earlier comment:
"
Or maybe look at it this way:
create table test1 (a int4);
create table test2 (b int4) inherits (test1); ^ col #1 ^ col #2
alter table test1* add column c int4; ^ col #3
"?
If so, I thought Oliver pointed out that you had the numbering wrong.
I thought so, too...
Which is right?
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