Re: Inheritance

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Gulutzan <71022(dot)733(at)compuserve(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inheritance
Date: 2002-09-03 16:36:37
Message-ID: 200209031636.g83Gab320278@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Gulutzan wrote:
> The August draft of the SQL:200n standard (9075-2 Foundation) says in
> Section 4.17.2: "Every table constraint specified for base table T is
> implicitly a constraint on every subtable of T, by virtue of the fact
> that every row in a subtable is considered to have a corresponding
> superrow in every one of its supertables."

Yep, this is where we are stuck; having an index span multiple tables
in some way.

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