As you've discovered, primary key constraints (and other constraints)
do not inherit, but perhaps something like the following will work for
you:
create table base (id serial primary key, (other fields to be
inherited...));
create table derived (new_field1 varchar(10), (other new fields...),
constraint derived_pkey primary key(id)) inherits base;
Hope this helps,
Tim
On May 12, 2004, at 11:16 AM, felix-lists-pgsql@crowfix.com wrote:
> Well well, after I posted my request for help, I thought to search the
> mailing list archive, and lo! and behold! there was a discussion in
> December 2003 of the exact same problem, with the "resolution" that it
> is a design limitation, it may have been put on some request list, and
> it looks like I need to go back to individually defined tables or find
> some other workaround ...
>
> So unless someone has developed a patch for this for 7.4.2, I will now
> continue with my irregularly scheduled poking around and learning ...
>
> Thanks to everybody for PostgreSQL anyway :-)
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