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From Tim Uckun
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In response to Re: "Reverse" inheritance?  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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I have thought of doing something like a single table inheritance and it could be done but I thought this might be a little more elegant.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to make postgres tables work like an object hierarchy. As an example I have done this.

​I suspect you are barking up the wrong tree ;)

You are probably better off incorporating something like the "ltree" type to encode the taxonomy.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html

I haven't had a chance to leverage it myself but the concept it embodies is solid.

David J.
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