Tighten integrity checks on ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... RENAME.
authorRobert Haas <[email protected]>
Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:28:56 +0000 (19:28 +0000)
committerRobert Haas <[email protected]>
Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:28:56 +0000 (19:28 +0000)
commit568536a4a2d040e6a1f3b7d7800804ffdd714b2a
tree82883661be8a77cc472ec0921dd7c0ffa3ef04e3
parent84b25580776146e20ceb88aa1e439d5b858caef7
Tighten integrity checks on ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... RENAME.

When a column is renamed, we recursively rename the same column in
all descendent tables.  But if one of those tables also inherits that
column from a table outside the inheritance hierarchy rooted at the
named table, we must throw an error.  The previous coding correctly
prohibited the rename when the parent had inherited the column from
elsewhere, but overlooked the case where the parent was OK but a child
table also inherited the same column from a second, unrelated parent.

For now, not backpatched due to lack of complaints from the field.

KaiGai Kohei, with further changes by me.
Reviewed by Bernd Helme and Tom Lane.
src/backend/catalog/pg_inherits.c
src/backend/commands/alter.c
src/backend/commands/analyze.c
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
src/include/catalog/pg_inherits_fn.h
src/include/commands/tablecmds.h
src/test/regress/expected/inherit.out
src/test/regress/sql/inherit.sql