Hi,

My question is coming from "SQL generation" in Entity Modeler. 
When I am playing the code with
Apple/example/SophisticatedDatabaseExample.

Copied from README:
The SophisticatedDatabaseExample demonstrates the use of inheritance,
flattening, and multiple models.

The Person class is abstract. Student, Parent and Employee inherit from
Person using horizontal inheritance. 
The Admin,Staff, Teacher classes all inherit from Employee using
single-table inheritance. 
The HomeAddress, WorkAddress, and BillingAddress inherit from Address
using vertical inheritance.

The relationship between Student and ScheduledCourse is an example of a
many-to-many "flattened" relationship. The normal indirect "join" table
values are extracted into each side of the relationship, giving the
appearance of a direct many-to-many relationship between
entities(classes). This relationship is interesting because Student is
an entity in the School model but ScheduledClass is an entity in the
Course model. 

When I tried to create foreign key constraints using "Generate SQL", I
only got some constraints, not all of them.
All I got from two models:
ALTER TABLE SCHEDULED_CLASS ADD CONSTRAINT SCHEDULED_CLASS_SCHEDULE_FK
FOREIGN KEY (SCHEDULE_ID) REFERENCES SCHEDULE (SCHEDULE_ID);

ALTER TABLE SCHEDULED_CLASS ADD CONSTRAINT SCHEDULED_CLASS_COURSE_FK
FOREIGN KEY (COURSE_ID) REFERENCES COURSE (COURSE_ID);

ALTER TABLE SCHEDULED_CLASS ADD CONSTRAINT SCHEDULED_CLASS_CLASSROOM_FK
FOREIGN KEY (CLASSROOM_ID) REFERENCES CLASSROOM (CLASSROOM_ID);



ALTER TABLE STUDENTPARENT ADD CONSTRAINT STUDENTPARENT_STUDENT_FK
FOREIGN KEY (PARENT_ID) REFERENCES STUDENT (PERSON_ID);

ALTER TABLE STUDENTPARENT ADD CONSTRAINT STUDENTPARENT_PARENT_FK FOREIGN
KEY (PARENT_ID) REFERENCES PARENT (PERSON_ID);

ALTER TABLE STUDENT_SCHEDULED_CLASS ADD CONSTRAINT
STUDENT_SCHEDULED_CLASS_STUDENT_FK FOREIGN KEY (STUDENT_ID) REFERENCES
STUDENT (PERSON_ID);

I think some foreign key constraints are missing, like
SCHEDULED_CLASS and TEACHER(EMPLOYEE), EMPLOYEE and ADDRESS, STUDENT and
STUDENT_SCHEDULED_CLASS .....

Is it bug in Entity Modeler or somewhere couldn't figure out the
horizontal/vertical  inheritance in the model?


Thanks

Kevin




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