Can inherited tables help in this case? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Avi Schwartz
Subject Can inherited tables help in this case?
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Msg-id 2F9BEEE0-A218-11D7-AC40-000393AE5044@CFFtechnologies.com
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Responses Re: Can inherited tables help in this case?  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Hi,

We have a table, lets say of products.  Some products get deleted from
time to time, using a soft delete (i.e. they have a date deleted
attribute which is set when the the record is deleted.  We never
physically delete the records.  Is there a way that table inheritance
can be used to help us speed up queries?  In other words, if we had a
table of products and a table of deleted_product which inherits from
products, can we create initially a record in the products table and
when it is marked as deleted make it a deleted_product record instead
of a product record so we select on products only?

Avi


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