Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > That seems right, but the problem I have with it is that the resulting
> > state of c.f1 is attisinherited = 1.  This means that you cannot drop
> > c.f1.  It seems to me that we should have this behavior:
> 
> Has anyone given much thought as to perhaps we could just drop multiple
> inheritance from Postgres?  There are people using single inheritance - but
> how many actually use multiple inheritance?  If we dumped it we could use
> the proposed all-child-tables-in-one-relation idea, and everything would
> become very easy...

I am for it.  Multiple inheritance is more of a mess than a help.  Just
look at C++.  Everyone is moving away from multiple inheritance for that
reason.

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