Doug Wiebe <dwiebe@me.com> wrote:
> [...]
> What am I doing wrong?
<URI:http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ddl-inherit.html>:
| [...]
| 5.8.1. Caveats
| [...]
| A serious limitation of the inheritance feature is that
| indexes (including unique constraints) and foreign key con-
| straints only apply to single tables, not to their inheri-
| tance children. This is true on both the referencing and
| referenced sides of a foreign key constraint. Thus, in the
| terms of the above example:
| [...]
| * Specifying that another table's column REFERENCES
| cities(name) would allow the other table to contain city
| names, but not capital names. There is no good workaround
| for this case.
| These deficiencies will probably be fixed in some future re-
| lease, but in the meantime considerable care is needed in
| deciding whether inheritance is useful for your application.
Tim
