On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:24:18PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:00:46PM +0400, Ilia Kantor wrote:
> > Your suggestion is essentially the same as mine..
> > There exists tableoid, pretty much suited to tell between tables in the case
> > of inheritance.. I can't see a "real" need to add a special "class
> > classifier" to each table..
> > This solution is a workaround. It will work, just can't make myself love it.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to tweak the constraints exclusion
> code so that if it sees something of the form "tableoid = X" to exclude
> other tables...
>
> You know, assume each table has a constraint "tableoid = OID".
>
> Still, it is a fairly unusual feature.
Well, it's possibly a good way to do list partitioning where you can
drop the partitioning key out of each partition, something I would love
to have for stats.distributed.net (I'm actually working on a project
that does exactly this with a UNION ALL view and rules...)
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