Re: INHERITS doesn't offer enough functionality

From: Chris <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: INHERITS doesn't offer enough functionality
Date: 2000-10-17 10:21:44
Message-ID: 39EC2838.3087E629@bitmead.com
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Thank you, it's not a big problem that this doesn't happen, but it'd
> be nice to see it as an option when creating a table via inheritance.
>
> What about RULEs? I wouldn't really have a use for that but others
> might.

Actually it's a reasonably big deal. Apart from the obvious performance
penalty for a deep inheritance hierarchy it affects the implementation
of unique keys, referential integrity for inheritance and the
transparancy of extending an inheritance hierarchy.

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