On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Zdravko Balorda <zdravko.balorda@siix.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to inheritance. Does anyone have a good link about it?
>
> I have just finished an application using parent and child tables.
> Tables look a bit strange. :)
>
> Inheritance seems a good replacement for foreign keys. One can
> completely forget about them which simplifies programming.
> A great idea, this inheritance.
It ... doesn't. In fact, it makes them harder, as you need to create them
and associated indexes on each child table.
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