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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Simon Connah <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using "object orientated" tables?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 21:50:03 -0400
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Simon Connah <[email protected]> writes:
> I was wondering what the community thought of using table inheritance in PostgreSQL? Is it considered bad practice these days?

Mmm ... not if the various caveats[1] don't bother you.  The biggest
stumbling block for most people, I think, is that you can't have
foreign keys that reference the whole inheritance hierarchy.

			regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-inherit.html#DDL-INHERIT-CAVEATS

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