Re: Hi ...Inheritance in postgres 7.3.4 reg.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, K-Sudhakaran wrote:

Hi Sudhakaran,

I'm not sure if I missunderstand you, but I think the feature you're
describing is foreign keys ...
If it's not, please try to describe it in more detail.

Greeetings, Klaus

>
> Hi/Hello Postgres Team!
>
> Me Sudhakaran, working for a software R&D institution located in Bangalore
> city of India.
>
> I feel that, if a table (entity) inherits another parent table(entity),
> the primary key should be unique accross all the inherited tables. That is
> the real inheritance otherwise I feel it is a mere containment of
> structure what we have in postgres 7.3.4.
>
> Because, say for example, as in my application domain, if a staff member
> inherits citizen, it means that, when a staff instance is added to staff
> entity, then it takes role in citizen (its parent) entity by default as
> after all every staff is a citizen.
>
> I am interested in contributing for this effort's special feature.
> Can I know which source code files I may have 2 explore to
> understand the Inheritance implementation in postgres 7.3.4 which I am
> using right now in my application development.
>
> Hope you would encourage me going ahead in this open source way of getting
> wanted things, by your postive response out of your bussy schedules.
>
> Thanx a lot.
>
> Kind regards
> K.Sudhakaran
>
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