Re: [SQL] CREATE TABLE (fwd ): again! - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [SQL] CREATE TABLE (fwd ): again!
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Msg-id 4114.920739286@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to [SQL] CREATE TABLE (fwd ): again!  (Ingrith Andrea Correa Vargas <i-correa@uniandes.edu.co>)
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"Gene Selkov Jr." <selkovjr@xnet.com> writes:
> ... Only attributes are inherited, and it is hard to
> say to what degree the inheritance mechanism remained functional in
> the course of development. Since no one seems to use it,

I use inheritance of table attributes constantly --- it seems to work
fine.  Someone else recently contributed patches for pg_dump that made
it do the right thing with inherited constraints, so I'm not the only
developer who uses inheritance...

            regards, tom lane

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