On examine_subclass - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject On examine_subclass
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0006191647400.353-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Can we rename the `examine_subclass' option to something else? Rationale:

* "class" is not a term usually used around here or SQL (okay, besides
pg_class, but note "relname")

* The naming is conceptually backwards with the SQL99 model (which, in
absence of convincingly better ideas is still the reference). According to
SQL99, rows are shared between tables and subtables so you're not really
"examing subclasses/subtables" or not, you are instead explicitly ignoring
rows from subtables.

Maybe something religiously neutral like traditional_inheritance = on|off
or conversely sql_inheritance = on|off?

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