Re: [Gnumed-devel] use of PG inheritance in GNUmed

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Point taken. Still, inheritance is sort of a historical artifact in
> PostgreSQL.
Not really. Table inheritance is quite well established. I
believe you are referring to type inheritance/complex
types/table types...

> I don't see it being actively maintained and developed by the
> PG team (as you said it yourself). 
It *is* on the TODO, however. Judicious use isn't likely to
lead us into too much trouble (apart from non-portability).
However, the audit functionality would have to be ported
manually anyways.

> Views are pretty portable.
Well, OK, won't argue much here.

Karsten
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