Include typmod when complaining about inherited column type mismatches.

MergeAttributes() rejects cases where columns to be merged have the same
type but different typmod, which is correct; but the error message it
printed didn't show either typmod, which is unhelpful.  Changing this
requires using format_type_with_typemod() in place of TypeNameToString(),
which will have some minor side effects on the way some type names are
printed, but on balance this is an improvement: the old code sometimes
printed one type according to one set of rules and the other type according
to the other set, which could be confusing in its own way.

Oddly, there were no regression test cases covering any of this behavior,
so add some.

Complaint and fix by Amit Langote

3 files changed, 40 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 56fed4d87c..a217dbcb1e 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -1613,8 +1613,10 @@ MergeAttributes(List *schema, List *supers, char relpersistence,
 						errmsg("inherited column \"%s\" has a type conflict",
 							   attributeName),
 							 errdetail("%s versus %s",
-									   TypeNameToString(def->typeName),
-									   format_type_be(attribute->atttypid))));
+									   format_type_with_typemod(defTypeId,
+																deftypmod),
+								format_type_with_typemod(attribute->atttypid,
+													attribute->atttypmod))));
 				defCollId = GetColumnDefCollation(NULL, def, defTypeId);
 				if (defCollId != attribute->attcollation)
 					ereport(ERROR,
@@ -1832,8 +1834,10 @@ MergeAttributes(List *schema, List *supers, char relpersistence,
 							 errmsg("column \"%s\" has a type conflict",
 									attributeName),
 							 errdetail("%s versus %s",
-									   TypeNameToString(def->typeName),
-									   TypeNameToString(newdef->typeName))));
+									   format_type_with_typemod(defTypeId,
+																deftypmod),
+									   format_type_with_typemod(newTypeId,
+																newtypmod))));
 				defcollid = GetColumnDefCollation(NULL, def, defTypeId);
 				newcollid = GetColumnDefCollation(NULL, newdef, newTypeId);
 				if (defcollid != newcollid)
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
index 228ae6ec22..7c88ddc9fe 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
@@ -1270,6 +1270,27 @@ select * from child;
 
 drop table child;
 drop table parent;
+-- check error cases for inheritance column merging
+create table parent (a float8, b numeric(10,4), c text collate "C");
+create table child (a float4) inherits (parent); -- fail
+NOTICE:  merging column "a" with inherited definition
+ERROR:  column "a" has a type conflict
+DETAIL:  double precision versus real
+create table child (b decimal(10,7)) inherits (parent); -- fail
+NOTICE:  moving and merging column "b" with inherited definition
+DETAIL:  User-specified column moved to the position of the inherited column.
+ERROR:  column "b" has a type conflict
+DETAIL:  numeric(10,4) versus numeric(10,7)
+create table child (c text collate "POSIX") inherits (parent); -- fail
+NOTICE:  moving and merging column "c" with inherited definition
+DETAIL:  User-specified column moved to the position of the inherited column.
+ERROR:  column "c" has a collation conflict
+DETAIL:  "C" versus "POSIX"
+create table child (a double precision, b decimal(10,4)) inherits (parent);
+NOTICE:  merging column "a" with inherited definition
+NOTICE:  merging column "b" with inherited definition
+drop table child;
+drop table parent;
 -- test copy in/out
 create table test (a int4, b int4, c int4);
 insert into test values (1,2,3);
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
index 3db3460973..72e65d4ee0 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
@@ -906,6 +906,17 @@ select * from child;
 drop table child;
 drop table parent;
 
+-- check error cases for inheritance column merging
+create table parent (a float8, b numeric(10,4), c text collate "C");
+
+create table child (a float4) inherits (parent); -- fail
+create table child (b decimal(10,7)) inherits (parent); -- fail
+create table child (c text collate "POSIX") inherits (parent); -- fail
+create table child (a double precision, b decimal(10,4)) inherits (parent);
+
+drop table child;
+drop table parent;
+
 -- test copy in/out
 create table test (a int4, b int4, c int4);
 insert into test values (1,2,3);