Re: [GENERAL] child table doesn't inherit PRIMARY KEY?

OK, what do people want to do with this item?  Add to TODO list?

Seems making a separat unique constraint would be easy to do and be of
value to most users.


> 
> Probably, since I see it in near recent sources (and it affects
> UNIQUE as well.  As I remember it, the last discussion on this couldn't
> determine what the correct behavior for unique/primary key constraints
> was in the inheritance case (is it a single unique hierarchy through
> all the tables [would be needed for fk to inheritance trees] or
> separate unique constraints for each table [which would be similar
> to how many people seem to currently use postgres inheritance as a 
> shortcut]). 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Does this bug still exist?
> > 
> > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > Louis-David Mitterrand writes:
> > > 
> > > > When creating a child (through CREATE TABLE ... INHERIT (parent)) it
> > > > seems the child gets all of the parent's contraints _except_ its PRIMARY
> > > > KEY. Is this normal?
> 
> 


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