Re: Changing the default value of an inherited column

Tom Lane writes:

> It seems that in pre-7.0 Postgres, this works:
>
> create table one(id int default 1, descr text);
> create table two(id int default 2, tag text) inherits (one);
>
> with the net effect that table "two" has just one "id" column with
> default value 2.

Although the liberty to do anything you want seems appealing at first, I
would think that allowing this is not correct from an OO point of view.
But given that our inheritance system actually has conceivably little
resemblance to real OO, I don't really care.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/