On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:16:17AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > 1. Embellish inheritance or separate infrastructure?
> >
> > > It seems prudent to avoid building on that foundation, even though we
> > > may decide to use some similar approaches.
> >
> > I disagree. The code is there, it could use work, and what you are
> > basically proposing is to duplicate both the existing work and much
> > of the improvement it needs.
>
> Minefields need clearing someday, I suppose.
>
> Multiple inheritance isn't something I'll be spending time on though.
I'm also not sure that inheritance would support all cases. For example,
in some situations PPUC3 leads to doing individual value partitioning,
where a partition is guaranteed to have only one value for part of the
PPK, meaning that there's no reason to store that part of the key in the
partition itself. Currently this is possible with partitions built out
of views but not out of inherited tables.
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