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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Chris Travers <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres Documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on inheritance docs
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:09:57 -0400
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Chris Travers <[email protected]> writes:
> 1)  Would it be worth coming up with more useful examples for table inheritance?
> 2)  Would it be worth adding mention of uses of multiple table inheritance?
> 3)  Would it be worth discussing how to position the limitations of
> table inheritance?  I personally recognize the difficulties in
> documenting these but I can't help thinking that a simple chart of
> "this is/is not inherited" would be very useful as well.

All of those sound sane to me at this level of detail, and in particular
I agree that the docs are short on examples of multiple inheritance.

The arguments will probably start once you get more concrete ...

			regards, tom lane




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