On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, K-Sudhakaran wrote: Hi Sudhakaran,
I'm not sure if I missunderstand you, but I think the feature you're describing is foreign keys ... If it's not, please try to describe it in more detail. Greeetings, Klaus > > Hi/Hello Postgres Team! > > Me Sudhakaran, working for a software R&D institution located in Bangalore > city of India. > > I feel that, if a table (entity) inherits another parent table(entity), > the primary key should be unique accross all the inherited tables. That is > the real inheritance otherwise I feel it is a mere containment of > structure what we have in postgres 7.3.4. > > Because, say for example, as in my application domain, if a staff member > inherits citizen, it means that, when a staff instance is added to staff > entity, then it takes role in citizen (its parent) entity by default as > after all every staff is a citizen. > > I am interested in contributing for this effort's special feature. > Can I know which source code files I may have 2 explore to > understand the Inheritance implementation in postgres 7.3.4 which I am > using right now in my application development. > > Hope you would encourage me going ahead in this open source way of getting > wanted things, by your postive response out of your bussy schedules. > > Thanx a lot. > > Kind regards > K.Sudhakaran > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > K.Sudhakaran > Staff Scientist > #68 National Centre for Software Technology > Electronic City,Hosur Road > Bangalore. 561 229 > Phone. 8523300 Extn 2404 > > Love all Serve All > Help Ever , Hurt Never > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > > -- Full Name : Klaus Naumann | (http://www.mgnet.de/) (Germany) Phone / FAX : ++49/177/7862964 | E-Mail: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
