[Re: Tom Lane's explanation of function inheritance]
That is a really nice capability. However, the statement is somewhat
confusing because this is a matter of parameter type promotion rather than
member/method function inheritance, which is what I thought was being referred
to.
I suggest something like the following:
"In Postgres, each created table automatically defines a new row object type
in an inheritance hierarchy. Postgres automatically allows a descendant table
row object to be used anywhere a parent table row object is called for. This
means that functions declared to accept row objects from a parent table
automatically accept row objects from all of its descendant tables as well."
Is that an improvement? I believe the SQL3 people were wrestling with similar
nomenclature issues once upon a time...
- Mark Butler
