Patch applied, thanks.
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > I had a deeper look at this now. The patch looks clean and applies without
> > any problems, regression tests passes. However, ATRewriteTables() has a
> > problem when adding columns with domains and constraints. Consider this
> > small test case:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE bar (id INTEGER);
> > CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW vbar AS SELECT * FROM bar;
> > CREATE DOMAIN person AS TEXT CHECK(value IN ('haas', 'helmle'));
> > ALTER TABLE bar ADD COLUMN name person;
> > CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW vbar AS SELECT * FROM bar;
> >
> > The last command confuses ATRewriteTable(), which wants to scan the relation
> > leading to this error:
> > ERROR: could not open relation base/16384/16476:
> >
> > I see that ATRewriteTable() errors out on heap_beginscan(), since needscan
> > is set to TRUE. One solution would be to teach ATRewriteTable(s) to handle
> > view alteration differently in this case.
>
> After looking at this, I think the root cause of this problem is that
> ATPrepAddColumn isn't smart enough to know that when the underlying
> relation is a view, there's no point in asking for a table rewrite.
> Please find an updated patch that addresses this problem.
>
> Thanks again for the review - let me know what you think of this version!
>
> ...Robert
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