Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> writes:
> I wondered if anyone had considered allowing inheritence children to have
> different column types than the parent (and each other).
No, and it's not sane to consider it.
> I'm thinking of the trivial (?) case of smallint/int/bigint.
What's trivial about that? Consider
select * from parent_table where somefunc(intcol);
If somefunc takes integer, this is fine, but what are we supposed to do
if the corresponding column in the child is bigint? Throw error for any
row where the value doesn't fit in int? If so, what's the point of
letting the child column type be different?
regards, tom lane