Thread: Table Inheritence...Just Columns?

Table Inheritence...Just Columns?

From

"Redefined Horizons"

Date:

26 July 2006, 21:17:35

Does a child table just inherit the columns from a parent table, or
are other table objects like column constraints and triggers
inherited?

Thanks,

Scott Huey

Re: Table Inheritence...Just Columns?

From

"Shoaib Mir"

Date:

26 July 2006, 22:16:23

From PostgreSQL 8.1 documentation (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ddl-inherit.html)

"Check constraints can be defined on tables within an inheritance hierarchy. All check constraints on a parent table are automatically inherited by all of its children. Other types of constraints are not inherited, however"

Thanks,

--
Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 7/27/06, Redefined Horizons <redefined.horizons@gmail.com> wrote:

Does a child table just inherit the columns from a parent table, or
are other table objects like column constraints and triggers
inherited?

Thanks,

Scott Huey

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