Re: effective SELECT from child tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: effective SELECT from child tables
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Msg-id 20050930233010.GR40138@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: effective SELECT from child tables  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Re: effective SELECT from child tables
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:25:46PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Include the Discriminator as a column in A and it will be inherited by
> all A1, A2, A3. 
> e.g. concrete_class    char(1) not null
<snip>
> This will add 1 byte per row in your superclass... and requires no

I thought char was actually stored variable-length...? I know there's a
type that actually acts like char does on most databases, but I can't
remember what it is off-hand (it should be mentioned in docs 8.3...)
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