>the intention is to use this information from the parent and make it a >property of the child table. This will avoid the step for the user having to >manually specify CREATE INDEX and the likes on all the children tables >one-by-one.
Missed the start of this thread. A while back I had intended to add WITH INDEXES to CREATE TABLE LIKE. That would let you create a tale LIKE parent WITH CONSTRAINTS WITH INDEXES and get pretty much a perfect table ready for adding to the inheritance structure.
Yeah, this one aims to do pretty much the above as part of the auto creation of the inheritance-based partitions.
And to add, maybe if there is consensus/demand for the WITH INDEXES idea mentioned above too, I could work on it as well.