> Huh, I don't know where I got the idea you were (or someone else was?)

> in the position that attislocal should be reset.  I'll clean everything
> up and submit the patch I had originally made.

All right, this is it.  This patch merely checks if child tables have
the column.  If atttypid and atttypmod are the same, the attributes'
attinhcount is incremented; else the operation is aborted.  If child
tables don't have the column, recursively add it.

attislocal is not touched in any case.

Alvaro Herrera

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 14d8263..c66f066 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.45 2002/09/28 20:00:19 tgl Exp $
+ *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c,v 1.46 2002/10/19 02:09:45 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -1643,22 +1643,53 @@ AlterTableAddColumn(Oid myrelid,
                colDefChild->inhcount = 1;
                colDefChild->is_local = false;
 
-               /* this routine is actually in the planner */
-               children = find_all_inheritors(myrelid);
+               /* we only need direct inheritors */
+               children = find_inheritance_children(myrelid);
 
                /*
-                * find_all_inheritors does the recursive search of the
-                * inheritance hierarchy, so all we have to do is process all of
-                * the relids in the list that it returns.
+                * If the child has a column with same name and type,
+                * increment its attinhcount and continue.  If it has
+                * different type, abort.  If it doesn't have a column
+                * with the same name, add it.
                 */
                foreach(child, children)
                {
                        Oid                     childrelid = lfirsti(child);
+                       HeapTuple       tuple;
+                       Form_pg_attribute childatt;
 
                        if (childrelid == myrelid)
                                continue;
 
-                       AlterTableAddColumn(childrelid, false, true, colDefChild);
+                       attrdesc = heap_openr(AttributeRelationName, RowExclusiveLock);
+                       tuple = SearchSysCacheCopyAttName(childrelid, colDef->colname);
+                       if (!HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))
+                       {
+                               heap_close(attrdesc, RowExclusiveLock);
+                               AlterTableAddColumn(childrelid, false, true, colDefChild);
+                               continue;
+                       }
+                       childatt = (Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple);
+
+                       typeTuple = typenameType(colDef->typename);
+                       tform = (Form_pg_type) GETSTRUCT(typeTuple);
+
+                       if (HeapTupleGetOid(typeTuple) != childatt->atttypid ||
+                                       colDef->typename->typemod != childatt->atttypmod)
+                               elog(ERROR, "ALTER TABLE: child table %u has different "
+                                               "type for column \"%s\"",
+                                               childrelid, colDef->colname);
+
+                       childatt->attinhcount++;
+                       simple_heap_update(attrdesc, &tuple->t_self, tuple);
+                       CatalogUpdateIndexes(attrdesc, tuple);
+                       
+                       elog(NOTICE, "ALTER TABLE: merging definition of column "
+                                       "\"%s\" for child %u", colDef->colname, childrelid);
+
+                       heap_close(attrdesc, RowExclusiveLock);
+                       heap_freetuple(tuple);
+                       ReleaseSysCache(typeTuple);
                }
        }
        else