Re: INHERITS doesn't offer enough functionality - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Chris
Subject Re: INHERITS doesn't offer enough functionality
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Msg-id 39EC2838.3087E629@bitmead.com
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In response to Re: INHERITS doesn't offer enough functionality  (Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Thank you, it's not a big problem that this doesn't happen, but it'd
> be nice to see it as an option when creating a table via inheritance.
> 
> What about RULEs?  I wouldn't really have a use for that but others
> might.

Actually it's a reasonably big deal. Apart from the obvious performance
penalty for a deep inheritance hierarchy it affects the implementation
of unique keys, referential integrity for inheritance and the
transparancy of extending an inheritance hierarchy.


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