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…0657 Removing a parent from 'Inherited from' removed its columns from the Columns tab, but only NO INHERIT was run, which keeps them on the table as local columns, so they came back on reopening. Drop them as well, unless a remaining parent still provides them. Adding a parent to an existing table failed with "child table is missing column", as the parent's columns were skipped and INHERIT requires the table to have them. Add the parent's missing columns and CHECK constraints, using their definitions from the catalog, before INHERIT. The tree icon returned after saving was based on the table's properties from before the update, so it showed the previous inheritance. Use the table's state after the update instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Gather inheritance changes web/pgadmin/.../tables/templates/tables/sql/default/get_inherit_prerequisite_columns.sql, .../get_inherit_prerequisite_checks.sql, .../get_uninherit_checks.sql, .../get_uninherit_not_nulls.sql, web/pgadmin/.../tables/utils.py |
Queries and utility helpers identify columns and CHECK constraints needed when parent relationships change. They also identify NOT NULL markings and columns that no remaining parent provides. |
Apply inheritance changes web/pgadmin/.../tables/templates/tables/sql/{default,15_plus}/update.sql, web/pgadmin/.../tables/utils.py, web/pgadmin/.../tables/tests/test_table_inherits_columns.py |
Update SQL prepares inherited columns and constraints before INHERIT, then drops eligible columns and constraints and clears NOT NULL markings after NO INHERIT. Tests check generated SQL, saved database state, and the updated table icon. |
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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Possibly related issues
- Removing a parent from "Inherited from" hides its columns in the grid, but Save doesn't drop them #10657 — The changes drop columns no longer supplied by any remaining parent and preserve columns still supplied by another parent.
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Removing a parent can erase a child-owned column, and replacing a parent can leave its old default in use. Resolve these data-integrity risks before merging.
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Limit this PR to the removal requirement in [
#10657]. Move the add-parent prerequisite queries, update-template blocks, and tests to a separate PR or link an active issue that requires them. Move the tree-icon change and the CHECK/NOT NULL cleanup changes and their tests to separate linked work unless an active issue establishes those requirements.
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- Around line 46-48: Track CHECK constraints added by the inherit_checks
prerequisite flow and remove each local prerequisite when no remaining parent or
local definition requires it, so removing a parent does not leave its CHECK
active. Apply the same change to the corresponding flow in default/update.sql.
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checks query so a same-named child CHECK counts as complete only when it is
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- Around line 20-23: Update the missing inherited columns query so it also
returns an alteration for an existing compatible child column when the parent
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emitted before the INHERIT operation.
- Around line 3-8: Update the query selecting missing inherited columns to
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…en changing a table's parents. pgadmin-org#10657 Adding a parent created its generated columns as ordinary columns and left a column the table already has nullable when the parent's is NOT NULL, and PostgreSQL rejects INHERIT in both cases. Add generated columns with their expression, after the columns it uses, and set NOT NULL on such existing columns before INHERIT. Removing a parent left its CHECK constraints on the table, as NO INHERIT keeps them as local constraints. Drop the ones that no remaining parent also has, as is done for the parent's columns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Preserve child-local columns when removing a parent. · utils.py:1345-1357
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve child-local columns when removing a parent.
The column metadata query matches parent columns to child columns by name and does not inspect the child column's
attislocalvalue. Therefore, a child-localidthat has the same name as a removed parent'sidreceives that parent'sinheritedid. The dialog sends it incolumns.deleted, and_check_for_column_deleteemitsDROP COLUMN. PostgreSQL then removes the child-owned column and its stored values.Keep the existing drop behavior for parent-only columns, but skip the drop when the column is locally declared on the child.
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diff --git a/web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/columns/sql/default/properties.sql b/web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/columns/sql/default/properties.sql @@ - SELECT DISTINCT ON (att.attnum) att.attname as name, att.atttypid, att.attlen, att.attnum, att.attndims, + SELECT DISTINCT ON (att.attnum) att.attname as name, att.atttypid, att.attlen, att.attnum, att.attndims, att.atttypmod, att.attacl, att.attnotnull, att.attoptions, att.attfdwoptions, att.attstattarget, + att.attislocal, att.attstorage, att.attidentity, diff --git a/web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/utils.py b/web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/utils.py @@ - if c.get('inheritedfrom', None) is None or \ - (still_inherited is not None and + if c.get('inheritedfrom', None) is None or \ + (not c.get('attislocal', False) and + still_inherited is not None and c['name'] not in still_inherited):🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…'s parents. pgadmin-org#10657 Adding a parent with a NOT NULL column to a table that already has rows failed, as the added column had no value for them. Add the parent's columns with their defaults, as CREATE TABLE ... INHERITS does, so the existing rows are filled in. Removing a parent left NOT NULL on a column that a remaining parent still provides but allows NULLs in, as NO INHERIT keeps it. Drop it, except on primary key and replica identity columns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CREATE TABLE parent (id bigint, name "char");
CREATE TABLE child (cid bigint);
-- In the dialog, add parent to child -> ADD COLUMN id, ADD COLUMN name, INHERIT parent
-- id and name now have attislocal = true, attinhcount = 1If the drop skipped So removing a parent drops the columns, CHECK constraints and NOT NULL markings it contributed, unless a remaining parent still provides them. This never happens silently: the dialog removes those columns from the Columns tab, and the SQL tab lists every |
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PostgreSQL 18 virtual columns with attgenerated = 'v' return their generation
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preserving its generation status for INHERIT.
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- Line 7: Update the `pa.attnotnull` checks in both the uninherit-NOT-NULL and
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…g a table's parents. pgadmin-org#10657 On PostgreSQL 18, adding a parent with a virtual generated column added it as an ordinary column, which INHERIT rejects. Add it as GENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) VIRTUAL. A parent's NOT NULL NO INHERIT is not required of the child, so do not set NOT NULL for it when the parent is added, and do not drop the table's own NOT NULL when that parent is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s' order. pgadmin-org#10657 When parents added together share a column the table does not have, the column took its default only from the first parent, so it got none when that parent has no default, and Save failed for a table with rows if the column is NOT NULL. Use the first parent that has a default, as CREATE TABLE ... INHERITS does. The added and removed parents were worked out with sets, so several parents were inherited in an arbitrary order, and a parent replaced while others were added was never removed. Keep the order of the 'Inherited from' list, and work out both lists on every change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Description
Fixes #10657. Changing "Inherited from" on an existing table in the table dialog did not match what was saved:
NO INHERIT. PostgreSQL keeps those columns on the child as local columns, so they came back, editable, when the dialog was reopened. The parent's CHECK constraints and NOT NULL markings stayed on the child too.child table is missing column "id". It also failed when a column the table already has was nullable but the parent's was NOT NULL, when the parent had a generated column, or when the table had rows and the parent had a NOT NULL column.Root Cause
bdb652b77), reopened inherited columns carryinheritedid, so the dialog's removal (table.ui.js:703) now takes them out of the grid and sends them ascolumns.deleted._check_for_column_delete()skippedDROP COLUMNfor any deleted column withinheritedfromset, so onlyNO INHERITwas emitted.NO INHERITalso keeps the parent's CHECK constraints and NOT NULL markings as local ones._check_for_column_add()(tables/utils.py:1534) skips new columns marked as inherited, leaving onlyALTER TABLE ... INHERIT parent. PostgreSQL requires the child to already have all of the parent's columns (same type, typmod, collation, NOT NULL and generation expression) and its inheritable CHECK constraints beforeINHERIT.update()built the icon fromres['rows'][0], which holds the table's properties fetched before the update ran.Fix
Removing a parent
tables/utils.py:1290, new_get_still_inherited_columns(): returns the names of the columns that the parents still in "Inherited from" provide.tables/utils.py:1348,_check_for_column_delete(): a deleted inherited column is now dropped unless a remaining parent still provides it. Dropping such a column would fail withcannot drop inherited column.NO INHERITis rendered before the column SQL, so the drop runs after the column is no longer inherited.get_uninherit_checks.sqlandget_uninherit_not_nulls.sql: find the CHECK constraints and NOT NULL markings the table only has from the removed parents.update.sqlemitsDROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS/ALTER COLUMN ... DROP NOT NULLfor them right afterNO INHERIT(default/update.sql:60,15_plus/update.sql:68). Primary key and replica identity columns keep their NOT NULL, and a removed parent'sNOT NULL NO INHERIT(PostgreSQL 18+) never applied to the table, so it isn't dropped.Adding a parent
get_inherit_prerequisite_columns.sql: returns the added parents' columns that the table is missing, with the type fromformat_type(atttypid, atttypmod), collation, NOT NULL, default and generation expression (stored or virtual). It also returns columns the table has without a NOT NULL that a parent requires. A parent'sNOT NULL NO INHERIT(PostgreSQL 18+) doesn't count, as it isn't required of the child. For a column several added parents share, the default comes from the first parent that has one, asCREATE TABLE ... INHERITSdoes. The dialog only sends a basic type (e.g.character varying, notvarchar(10)), whichINHERITwould reject, so the definitions come from the catalog.get_inherit_prerequisite_checks.sql: returns the added parents' inheritable CHECK constraints the table is missing, viapg_get_constraintdef().default/update.sql:32and15_plus/update.sql:40: emitADD COLUMN(withDEFAULT, so existing rows get a value, andGENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) STOREDorVIRTUALfor generated columns, which come last),ALTER COLUMN ... SET NOT NULLandADD CONSTRAINTjust beforeINHERIT._filter_new_tables(): works out the added and removed parents in the order of the "Inherited from" list, instead of with sets, so several parents are inherited in a stable order. Both lists are now worked out on every change, so replacing a parent while adding others ([a]→[b, c]) also emitsNO INHERIT a.tables/utils.py:1307, new_get_inherit_changes(): runs the four queries above and passes the results toupdate.sql.Tree icon
tables/utils.py:1850,update(): the icon is now built fromnodes.sqlfor the table after the update (looked up in its current schema), the same query the tree uses.Behaviour to be aware of
attislocalcan't tell those apart from columns this PR adds beforeINHERIT, which PostgreSQL also marks as local. The dialog removes the columns from the Columns tab, and the SQL tab lists eachDROPbefore Save.contains null values);NO INHERITCHECK already on the child (conflicts with non-inherited constraint).Test Plan
tables/tests/test_table_inherits_columns.py(msql + PUT, then checkspg_attribute,pg_constraint,pg_inheritsand the returned node icon): 12 passed on PostgreSQL 18.6; 9 passed and 3 skipped (PostgreSQL 18-only) on PostgreSQL 16.icon-table;NOT NULL NO INHERITleaves the table's own NOT NULL.varchar(10) NOT NULL,COLLATE "C", generated column and CHECK are added beforeINHERIT;SET NOT NULL, and only the missing column is added;VIRTUAL;NOT NULL NO INHERITisn't added to the table.python regression/runtests.py --pkg browser.server_groups.servers.databases.schemas.tables: 526 passed on PostgreSQL 16 and 529 on PostgreSQL 18.6, 0 failed (skips: EPAS-only compound triggers, PostGIS, and the PostgreSQL 18-only scenarios on 16).python regression/runtests.py --pkg tools.schema_diff: 9 passed, 0 failed, on both PostgreSQL 16 and 18.6.pycodestyle --config=.pycodestyleon the changed Python files: clean.CREATE TABLE parent (id bigint, name "char"); CREATE TABLE child (model "char") INHERITS (parent);childand removepublic.parentfrom "Inherited from".NO INHERITfollowed byDROP COLUMN IF EXISTS idandDROP COLUMN IF EXISTS name.modelremains, and the tree icon loses the inherits arrow.child, addpublic.parentto "Inherited from".ADD COLUMN id bigintandADD COLUMN name "char"beforeINHERIT public.parent.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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NOT NULLmarkings are applied when adding parents and cleared when no remaining parent requires them.