This is the SQL standard-conforming variant of PostgreSQL's serial
columns. It fixes a few usability issues that serial columns have:
- CREATE TABLE / LIKE copies default but refers to same sequence
- cannot add/drop serialness with ALTER TABLE
- dropping default does not drop sequence
- need to grant separate privileges to sequence
- other slight weirdnesses because serial is some kind of special macro
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>
Having a WITH OIDS specification should result in the creation of an OID
column, but commit b943f502b broke that in the case that there were LIKE
tables without OIDS. Commentary in that patch makes it look like this was
intentional, but if so it was based on a faulty reading of what inheritance
does: the parent tables can add an OID column, but they can't subtract one.
AFAICS, the behavior ought to be that you get an OID column if any of the
inherited tables, LIKE tables, or WITH clause ask for one.
Also, revert that patch's unnecessary split of transformCreateStmt's loop
over the tableElts list into two passes. That seems to have been based on
a misunderstanding as well: we already have two-pass processing here,
we don't need three passes.
Per bug #14474 from Jeff Dafoe. Back-patch to 9.6 where the misbehavior
was introduced.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/20161222145304.25620.47445@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The only reason this didn't work before was that parserOpenTable()
rejects composite types. So use relation_openrv() directly and
manually do the errposition() setup that parserOpenTable() does.
The original implementation of this interpreted it as a kind of
"inheritance" facility and named all the internal structures
accordingly. This turned out to be very confusing, because it has
nothing to do with the INHERITS feature. So rename all the internal
parser infrastructure, update the comments, adjust the error messages,
and split up the regression tests.
