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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Using "object orientated" tables?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 01:52:59 +0000
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On Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 at 02:50, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Simon Connah [email protected] writes:
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> > I was wondering what the community thought of using table inheritance in PostgreSQL? Is it considered bad practice these days?
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> 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
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> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-inherit.html#DDL-INHERIT-CAVEATS
Thank you. I'll be sure to read that.
Simon.
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