Re: [GENERAL] postgresql table inheritance

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis.com>
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 14:42:18 EST

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:33 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> Table Inheritance is table structure ie a child table has all the same
> columns as the old one with some added columns that sore specialist
> items. This feature is used heavily used in Table Partitioning.
> Perhaps it should be renamed.

I think that was the point of the slashdot post: it creates confusion to call two separate concepts by the same name.

Regards,

        Jeff Davis

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