Is it planned to include these features to class inheritance?
Nelio
Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> Nelio Alves Pereira Filho wrote:
> >Here's my situation: I have the following relation
> >
> >table A -----<>------ table B
> > 1:N
> >
> >I created the two tables, and a foreign key from A into B. Now I want to
> >create other tables that inherit from B, but I want that the relation
> >exists for all of them. For that, I created another table, C, that had
> >just one field and inherited from B. No errors showed up, but it didn't
> >complain when I inserted some data into C without the corresponding one
> >in A!!
> >
> >Is it possible to do what I intended?
>
> Unfortunately not. Inheritance is not properly thought out; at present
> it allows fields to be duplicated and records selected from an inheritance
> hierarchy, but this is relatively useless because constraints are not
> inherited and indexes are not shared.
>
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