Re: [BUG?] strange behavior in ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO on inherited columns

2010/1/27 KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>:
> Hmm, indeed, this logic (V3/V5) is busted.
>
> The idea of V4 patch can also handle this case correctly, although it
> is lesser in performance.
> I wonder whether it is really unacceptable cost in performance, or not.
> Basically, I assume ALTER TABLE RENAME/TYPE is not frequent operations,
> and I don't think this bugfix will damage to the reputation of PostgreSQL.
>
> Where should we go on the next?

Isn't the problem here just that the following comment is 100% wrong?
               /*                * Unlike find_all_inheritors(), we need to walk on
child relations                * that have diamond inheritance tree, because this
function has to                * return correct expected inhecount to the caller.                */

It seems to me that the right solution here is to just add one more
argument to find_all_inheritors(), something like List
**expected_inh_count.

Am I missing something?

...Robert