Justin Pryzby writes:
> I wondered if anyone had considered allowing inheritence children to have
> different column types than the parent (and each other).
No, and it's not sane to consider it.
> I'm thinking of the trivial (?) case of smallint/int/bigint.
What's trivial about that? Consider
I wondered if anyone had considered allowing inheritence children to have
different column types than the parent (and each other).
I'm thinking of the trivial (?) case of smallint/int/bigint. Reason is that
when we load data which exceeds the theshold for the current data type we have
to promote
