> > I'm looking at pg_dump/common.c:flagInhAttrs() and suspect that it can
> > be more or less rewritten completely, and probably should to get rigth
> > all the cases mentioned in the past attisinherited discussion.  Is this
> > desirable for 7.3?  It can probably be hacked around and the rewrite
> > kept for 7.4, but I think it will be much simpler after the rewrite.
>
> If it's a bug then it's fair game to fix in 7.3.  But keep in mind that
> pg_dump has to behave at least somewhat sanely when called against older
> servers ... will your rewrite behave reasonably if the server does not
> offer attinhcount values?

Nah.  I don't think it's worth it: I had forgotten that older versions
should be supported.  I just left the code as is and added a
version-specific test.

This patch allows pg_dump to dump correctly local definition of columns.
In particular,

CREATE TABLE p1 (f1 int, f2 int);
CREATE TABLE p2 (f1 int);
CREATE TABLE c () INHERITS (p1, p2);
ALTER TABLE ONLY p1 DROP COLUMN f1;
CREATE TABLE p3 (f1 int);
CREATE TABLE c2 (f1 int) INHERITS (p3);

Will be dumped as
CREATE TABLE p1 (f2 int);
CREATE TABLE p2 (f1 int);
CREATE TABLE c (f1 int) INHERITS (p1, p2);
CREATE TABLE c2 (f1 int) INHERITS (p3);

(Previous version will dump
CREATE TABLE c () INHERITS (p1, p2)
CREATE TABLE c2 () INHERITS (p3) )

Alvaro Herrera