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From: Andrew Dunstan on 4 Aug 2010 08:56


On 08/04/2010 06:41 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Yeb Havinga<yebhavinga(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If child inherits column A from parent1 and parent2, and it is then
>>> renamed to B in parent2, what should the name be in the child after
>>> the rename is completed?
>> The column should be renamed to B in parent2, child and parent1.
> Uh, really? Wow. You want to follow the inheritance hierarchy in
> both directions, both down and up? That seems like it could be
> confusing.
>
>

It seems more than confusing. It seems fundamentally wrong. It would
certainly be a violation of POLA.

Unless there's an extremely persuasive case made for it I'm inclined
just to say no.

cheers

andrew

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