I'm using the "joined table inheritance" model. I have three levels of 
inheritance.

class has_polymorphic_id(object):
    @declared_attr.cascading
    def record_id(cls):
        if has_inherited_table(cls):
            return Column(ForeignKey('employee.record_id'),
                          primary_key=True)
        else:
            return Column(Integer, primary_key=True)


class Employee(has_polymorphic_id, Base):
    __tablename__ = 'employee'
    name = Column(String(50))
    type = Column(String(50))

    __mapper_args__ = {
        'polymorphic_identity':'employee',
        'polymorphic_on':type
    }

class Engineer(Employee):
    __tablename__ = 'engineer'
    ....

class Programmer(Engineer):
    __tablename__ = 'programmer'
    ....

This only works for the second level, namely `Enginner` can inherits the 
foreignkey/primarykey from `Employee`'s mixin, but the next level, the 
`Programmer`, python gives me an error:
`sqlalchemy.exc.NoForeignKeysError: Can't find any foreign key 
relationships between 'engineer' and 'programmer'.`

Is this designed this way? And if I manually set the foreignkey, should the 
third level reference to the base level or to its immediate parent level's 
primarykey?

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