Re: About inheritance

Guys,

> > I wonder why it doesn't just get ripped out?

Mostly because some people use it and in its current form it's not at all hard
to maintain from version to version.

> I hope not -- I think the underlying infrastructure could become the
> basis of table partitioning. I have a project going on right now in
> which we're porting ~700GB of data (forecast to become multi-TB over the
> next year or so) from partitioned vendor-O tables to inherited Postgres
> tables.

Hmmmm .... I don't think that there's much in inheritance that would work for
paritioned tables, but you know the code better than me, Joe.

Any chance your boss would fund a table partitioning patch?

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco