From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
Cc: Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>
Cc: Robert B. Easter <reaster@comptechnews.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Thus spoke SQL3 (on OO)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:30:19 +0300
Message-ID: <3928F01B.B0C6D563@tm.ee> (raw)
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Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > Chris, what is your position on having a single primary key for all
> > inherited columns ?
>
> What is the significance of a primary key compared to any old unique
> key?
I don't know ;) Some theorists seem to think it important, and PG allows
only one PK per table.
I just meant that primary key (as well as any other uniqe key) should be
inherited from parent table
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Hannu
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