Trent,
although I cannot contribute much of anything to your line
of thought I'd encourage you to keep on with it as it'd be
highly desirable (for GNUmed at least) to have a stronger/
more encompassing inheritance solution in PostgreSQL.
Karsten,
GNUmed developer
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