On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:22:28PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I'm putting together a talk on "PostgreSQL Pet Peeves" for discussion at
> > FOSDEM 2009 this year. I have a pretty good idea what some them are of course,
> > but I would be interested to hear if people have any complaints from personal
> > experience. What would be most interesting is if you can explain an example of
> > when the problem caused real inconvenience to you, since sometimes it's hard
> > to see from a theoretical description where the real harm lies.
> >
> > So, what do people say? Is Postgres perfect in your world or does it do some
> > things which rub you the wrong way?
>
> No foreign keys in inheritance trees
+1
Or, in other words, no indices across table (am I wrong ?).
GNUmed uses table inheritance quite extensively and could
save an additional key column per child table.
Karsten
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