Re: "Reverse" inheritance?

I have thought of doing something like a single table inheritance and it
could be done but I thought this might be a little more elegant.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to make postgres tables work like an object hierarchy. As an
>> example I have done this.
>>
>
> ​I suspect you are barking up the wrong tree ;)
>
> You are probably better off incorporating something like the "ltree" type
> to encode the taxonomy.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html
>
> I haven't had a chance to leverage it myself but the concept it embodies
> is solid.
>
> David J.
> ​
>