Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I suggest you be very cautious about messing with ALTER TABLE until you
> > > understand why inheritance makes it such a headache ;-)
> >
> > I'm just trying to get the defaults and constraints working. If
> > inheritance stays broken the way it previously was, it's beyond my
> > powers. But I get the feeling that people rather not alter their tables
> > unless they have *perfect* alter table commands. I don't feel like arguing
> > with them, they'll just have to do without then.
>
> OK, so am I hearing we don't want ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN without it
> working for inhertance. Is this really the way we want things? May as
> well disable ADD COLUMN too because that doesn't work for inheritance
> either.
>
I think this is not a good idea. Many of us doesn't interest inheritance.
ALTER ADD COLUMN is not complete but it is better than nothing.
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