On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 00:47, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> One table for the lot. If you use inheritance, it is my understanding
> that it will be the same thing, since all the data will be stored in the
> base table. The only thing you'd remove is the table name.
Not so; inserts must go into a particular table in the hierarchy, and
rows are stored in the particular table to which they belong. However,
a SELECT further up the hierarchy will also report rows in the child
tables (though not columns added in the child tables) unless the keyword
ONLY is used.
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