Re: Inheritance and foreign keys

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Brendan Jurd <blakjak(at)blakjak(dot)sytes(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inheritance and foreign keys
Date: 2003-12-08 20:38:54
Message-ID: 200312082138.54363.peter_e@gmx.net
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> I have a few projects that could benefit from inherited table
> structure, and it's a very cool idea, but this inability of indexes
> to include derived tables is a real functionality-killer. It's not
> "Object Relational" if the objects can't be related to anything!

Hehe, but the "relational" means that the data is stored in relations,
not that the data has to be related to other data.

> If someone could give me an idea of how far away this fix is, I'd be
> grateful.

No one has really expressed intentions to fix this, so I wouldn't hold
my breath.

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