"Gene Selkov Jr." <selkovjr(at)xnet(dot)com> writes:
> ... Only attributes are inherited, and it is hard to
> say to what degree the inheritance mechanism remained functional in
> the course of development. Since no one seems to use it,
I use inheritance of table attributes constantly --- it seems to work
fine. Someone else recently contributed patches for pg_dump that made
it do the right thing with inherited constraints, so I'm not the only
developer who uses inheritance...
regards, tom lane