On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to make postgres tables work like an object hierarchy. As an > example I have done this. > I suspect you are barking up the wrong tree ;) You are probably better off incorporating something like the "ltree" type to encode the taxonomy. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html I haven't had a chance to leverage it myself but the concept it embodies is solid. David J.