Re: Thoughts on inheritance docs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres Documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on inheritance docs
Date: 2012-08-23 14:09:57
Message-ID: 11191.1345730997@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 1) Would it be worth coming up with more useful examples for table inheritance?
> 2) Would it be worth adding mention of uses of multiple table inheritance?
> 3) Would it be worth discussing how to position the limitations of
> table inheritance? I personally recognize the difficulties in
> documenting these but I can't help thinking that a simple chart of
> "this is/is not inherited" would be very useful as well.

All of those sound sane to me at this level of detail, and in particular
I agree that the docs are short on examples of multiple inheritance.

The arguments will probably start once you get more concrete ...

regards, tom lane

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