Re: PostgreSQL inheritance vs https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: PostgreSQL inheritance vs https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
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In response to PostgreSQL inheritance vs https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This  (Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL inheritance vs https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This  (Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>)
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> On Oct 23, 2023, at 04:45, Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> I believe this text is false on too many accounts. So, what's the consensus about Inheritance in PostgreSQL, I am
goingto give a talk on it in November and I wouldn't like to advertise/promote/teach something that the community has
decidedto abandon or drop. Actually I proposed several topics and they chose this one (Inheritance).  

Is the topic literally table inheritance, or really table partitioning?  Often, people who are not deeply experienced
withPostgreSQL will use the term "inheritance" to mean table partitioning, since before version 10, inheritance was the
onlymechanism for doing partitioning.  If what they really mean is partitioning, then you should focus on declarative
partitioning(the newer scheme introduced in version 10), and if you mention table inheritance at all, it should be just
tomention it's an obsolete way of doing partitioning. 

If they really did mean table inheritance, that's a pretty esoteric feature to focus on at this point.  I strongly
suspectthey meant partitioning, and are using the term "inheritance" loosely. 


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