Bug?: Update on ancestor for a row of a child

Hello (mainly developer) folks!

Probably Kevin really found a bug.

When I saw his words in $50, I immediately started to look around his
problem... You probably don't think that as a student here, in Hungary I
live half a month for $50 :-))))

So I simplified his given schema as much as I needed, and found out
what exactly the problem is.

(Kevin, if you badly need a workaround, I can give you one,
but quite an ugly one.)

The problem is: when updating a row in an ancestor table,
which is really belongs to a child, there's something wrong
with the CHECK system.

Here's the simple schema, producing the error:

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drop table child;
drop table ancestor;

create table ancestor ( node_id int4, a int4
);

create table child ( b int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0          CHECK ( b = 0 OR b = 1)
) inherits (ancestor);

insert into ancestor values (3,4);
insert into child values (5,6,1);

update ancestor set a=8 where node_id=5;

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If one leaves out the CHECK condition, the UPDATE
works just fine, and __the final result meets the
check condition__.

So it seems to me that the system
1. either tries to check the CHECK condition of the child on the  ancestor
2. or only uses a wrong time to check against it.




Best regards,
Baldvin