Re: inherit support for foreign tables

Hi Horiguchi-san,

2014-02-18 19:29 GMT+09:00 Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>:
> Could you guess any use cases in which we are happy with ALTER
> TABLE's inheritance tree walking? IMHO, ALTER FOREIGN TABLE
> always comes with some changes of the data source so implicitly
> invoking of such commands should be defaultly turned off.

Imagine a case that foreign data source have attributes (A, B, C, D)
but foreign tables and their parent ware defined as (A, B, C). If
user wants to use D as well, ALTER TABLE parent ADD COLUMN D type
would be useful (rather necessary?) to keep consistency.

Changing data type from compatible one (i.e., int to numeric,
varchar(n) to text), adding CHECK/NOT NULL constraint would be also
possible.

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Shigeru HANADA