Re: Using "object orientated" tables?

Simon Connah <simon.n.connah@protonmail.com> writes:
> I was wondering what the community thought of using table inheritance in PostgreSQL? Is it considered bad practice
thesedays? 

Mmm ... not if the various caveats[1] don't bother you.  The biggest
stumbling block for most people, I think, is that you can't have
foreign keys that reference the whole inheritance hierarchy.

            regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-inherit.html#DDL-INHERIT-CAVEATS