Just say "NO".  Seriously, I've tried this before - went with the roles 
paradigm and never looked back.

Ken

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote:

> I can't see this being possible in Vertical or Horizontal, but with single 
> table... could the qualifying attribute be updated to 'promote' an entity to 
> a new class?  Let's say we have we have an abstract Person entity with three 
> subclasses, Peasant, Knight, King.  If I wanted to promote a knight to king, 
> is it possible to simply update my type attribute from knight to king and EOF 
> will start treating that record as a king instead of a knight?  I would 
> assume I would need to invalidate the existing knight object after saving 
> changes so it could be refetched as a king... and if I had multiple 
> instances, I'd need to invalidate it in those instances too... but is it 
> possible?  Or will EOF just flip out in the saveChanges() and refuse to do it?
> 
> Just an academic question, of course (^_^)
> 
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