Nick Rudnick <joerg(dot)rudnick(at)t-online(dot)de> wrote:
> here an inelegant example
Based on that example, you should be sure to look at the INHERITS
clause of CREATE TABLE:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createtable.html
PostgreSQL has the "is a" structure built in. That may not get you
all the way there, but between that and a few views, you might get
close without needing a lot of low level infrastructure work.
-Kevin