Questions tagged [inheritance]
For questions about extending a base object's features into a derived object.
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Preserving foreign key properties when using Class Table Inheritance (or alternatives)
Imagine I have a table events, which outdoor_events and indoor_events inherit from. I have activities then outdoor_activities and indoor_activities. Assume it makes sense for outdoor and indoor to be ...
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Make all users within group role inherit permissions
I have a group role that consists of around 1,000 users. Those users do not inherit group role permissions, and I would like to make them all inherit them instead.
What would be the way to do it ...
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partitioning with inheritance
Reference: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html#:~:text=return%20an%20error.-,5.11.3.%C2%[…]20Using%20Inheritance,-While%20the%20built
I was trying partitioning with ...
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How to implement concrete table inheritance pattern in MySQL?
I want to know how to implement classes in MySQL that represent a subset of another class type, with the purpose of having subclasses inherit fields from the parent class. Described by Martin Fowler ...
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How can I query my "subtype" tables?
I am trying to model inheritance in my database. The purpose of the database is to use it to emulate a directory structure in a desktop GUI. The directory structure is made up of nodes, which can ...
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Class Table Inheritance combined with running searches and paging
Assume we have tables similar to the following:
CREATE TABLE Base
(
ID int,
Type varchar(20),
Col1 varchar(255),
Col2 varchar(255),
AddedAt datetime2
);
CREATE TABLE Sub1
(
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Postgres natively partitioned tables - adding extra child columns
With Postgres native partitioning, can you add extra columns to a partition of the base table? Like:
CREATE TABLE item (
tenant_id bigint NOT NULL,
item_id bigint NOT NULL,
kind text NOT ...
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Deleting rows from child table without deleting from parent [closed]
I have 2 tables, connected with inheritance.
I want to delete some rows from the child table. The deletion part works but it deletes rows from the parent as well:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ...
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Why does selecting an attribute of an Oracle object require an alias?
My GIS software has an Oracle 18c object type called ST_GEOMETRY.
The object type has attributes:
The attributes of the spatial type represent the following
information:
Entity: The type of ...
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Oracle MV requires object type to be defined as FINAL?
I want to create an Oracle 18c materialized view (MV) on a table that has a user-defined datatype called ST_GEOMETRY:
The MV would do a COMPLETE refresh on a schedule — on a local table.
Some info ...
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How to model inheritance in MySQL for adding and deleting users?
I currently have a MySQL database and our ERD has inheritance for various tables. One is User which has as children: administrators, students and professors. The tables look as follow:
CREATE TABLE `...
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Modeling Table-Per-Type in PostgreSQL
I have read the following post How do you effectively model inheritance in a database? about inheritance in databases. Unfortunately I could not find anything in the PostgreSQL books from Packt. And ...
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When using class inheritance, can all PKs of the derived tables exist as PKs of the base table?
Brief questions
When class inheritance is used, the child table inherits the key from the parent, right? Thus, you INSERT INTO the parent and then the child?
This indicates that the PK of the child ...
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Poor performance in a SELECT using Inheritance
I will detail my problem in good detail. I have a marketplace application so I make a decision to make a multitenant per schema approach. I like this approach because of the isolation of data, but I'm ...
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Postgres role does not inherit permissions from its member role
I want to group my postgres database permissions to set of roles and then assign users to these parent roles to manage all permissions from a central place. I created a role called admins and granted ...
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Inheritence and Primary Key Constraints
I am currently trying to see how the object oriented features come in play in Postgres. During a few tests I noticed that when you insert in or delete from inheriting tables that those changes also ...
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Improve PostgreSQL SELECT performance in a parent table (inheritance)
I have a PostgreSQL 9.2 database where each account has a schema, like below:
My_Database
|-> Schemas
|-> AccountA
|-> AccountB
|-> AccountC
|-> AccountD
|-> ...
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PostgreSQL 10.6: Alter parent table will block ALL children?
I want to add a column to near 74.000 child tables. These tables continually have insertions and reads from all the services in the company, in almost realtime. If I add a column to the parent table, ...
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I have multiple different objects which share most attributes, but vary on a few, what methods could I use to model them?
I have a few different items which mostly share the same attributes, but then have a few extra/less. In OOP they could be modeled well with inheritance, but postgres' inheritance is limiting and doesn'...
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Can I improve the way pg_dump exports inherited tables?
Given a postgresql 12 database with some table inheritance, and the child table adds no additional columns:
CREATE TABLE parent (
id integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
name text NOT NULL
);
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Table Partitioning Using Inheritance and Triggers
I am trying to do table partitioning in PostgreSQL using inheritance and triggers but the problem that have occured to me is that the data does not move from the parent table to the children tables I ...
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Pass information to another table with the same inherit
Suppose the following scenario ... I have two tables (A, B) that inherit from a Z table, the SGBD is postgresql, these tables do not have an additional column, my question is how to pass a row from ...
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What is the purpose of "Schema Owner"?
If I create a new schema and set the schema owner to another schema, for example dbo, what is the meaning of that in regards to my new schema?
Does my new schema inherit the same permissions from it'...
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PostgreSQL Trigger to override insert on table with inheritance
We have a table documents that is partitioned by time into child tables like documents_2019_01, documents_2019_02. We do this using a BEFORE trigger on the parent documents table to insert into the ...
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Progressive child tables scan in PostgreSQL?
We have append-only events table where events from different devices are being collected.
We use PostgreSQL 9.6 and pg_partman to split the table into monthly partitions.
Data is partitioned using ...
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make exist table as inherit
i try to create parent table for exists table, by next algorithm:
-- CREATE TABLE
CREATE TABLE t1 (id serial PRIMARY KEY);
CREATE TABLE foreign_t1 (id serial, t1_id integer REFERENCES t1 (id));
-- ...
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Is it possible to drop inheritance from the parent table (top down)?
Our system uses inheritance on two levels:
master
child_level_1
child_level_2
child_level_2
child_level_2
child_level_1
child_level_2
child_level_2
child_level_1
child_level_2
The idea was to ...
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Transfer row from 'parent' to 'child' without creating duplicate and without knowing all 'parent' columns
I want to set up a database with different schemas that correspond to different data-entry systems. There needs to be a “master” (administration) schema with a “parties” table, and multiple other ...
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Correct way to join row in parent table to row in one of several children tables
I have a parent table product, and several children tables like phone, tablet, smartwatch etc. The parent and children have 1-1 relationship. This means that for every row in parent table, there will ...
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Implementing a graph-like design on postgresql using CTEs and inheritance
This question is about attempting to model/design an elementary graph-like database within postgres.
The starting point is that graphs have:
Nodes
Nodes have properties
Node are connected by (bi/...
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How to list all the inherited tables from the parent table?
I have 3 tables (janitor, security & manager) which inherited from the user table.
What is the query can be used to produce the following result(list all the name of the child tables)?
Thank you....
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Is it correct to model a specialized table using a foreign key whose referencing attributes are not also forming its primary key?
In the process of designing a database model, I would like to implement a Class Table Inheritance pattern in a way that does not seem common at first. I would like to know if it is a correct ...
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user security inheritance in SQL Server 2016
I'd like to build a bunch of new databases (several dozen) in SQL Server 2016. However, I'd like all users to access a single database (called SECURITY for now), and apply security to that one ...
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Database relationship inheritance [closed]
I have a vehicle sales store. In my store I sale many kind of vehicles for example cars and boats. And I would like to keep track of the sales.
My vehicles has some attributes as:
Arrive on store ...
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Inheritance and foreign keys in Postgres
This is about using inheritance and foreign keys in Postgresql databases.
Consider the following simplistic example whose structure is based on what I am building at the moment (but the specifics were ...
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Views that inherit a table and syntax in PostgreSQL
I am getting a syntax error but don't understand what is wrong.
I am using a reference here.
This is my sql-snippet:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW stipa_test.stipa_view
AS
(
SELECT *
FROM ...
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PostgreSQL database re-design considerations
We have a 2TB PostgreSQL database, which contains two groups of tables that account for about 90% of the storage used. These two groups can be loosely described as 2 big tables partitioned, the first ...
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Designing an extensible authentication system
I need to design an authentication system, where different type of authentication schemes may exist. At the end, I should assign a passphrase (access token) to the user.
I have several authentication ...
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Inheritance of "dictionary tables"
(In case this matters: I'm using SQLite)
My silly little database has a surprising number of tables with identical structure:
CREATE TABLE GTag (
ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
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Can Postgres inherited tables overlap
Is it possible to have single row in a parent table be visible in more than one inherited (child) table?
Perhaps by inserting a row directly into the master table and then "making it visible" in one ...
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Using table inheritance instead of mapping tables
This seems like a pretty common scenario: several types that all compose the same child type.
This could typically look like so:
-- 'name' is unique per parent record
CREATE TABLE sometype (
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PostgreSQL: Multiple Inheritance tables (one child to two parents)
If I have a base table and 2 or more tables that inherit from it, child1 and child2, I can insert a record into a child table and it shows up in base as you would expect.
However what I want to know ...
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Abstract classes in SQL Server. Are they even possible?
I have a very specific question that I am surprised no one has yet asked. It involves a concrete class model and SQL Server 2016 DDL. The main point is:
In my model, some classes inherit from a base ...
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Django Multi Table Inheritance and Preserving Child and Child History
Place can have many different one to one fields, that’s why it can have bookstore, restaurant, and hardware store. But can the same place be both a bookstore and a restaurant at the same time? Now if ...
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DB model strategy to override field value
We have to store some dynamic configuration in JSON format in DB. There would be some default configuration, and it can be overriden per account. Can someone help me with the strategy to store such ...
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Postgres inherit from one role and not another
I'm a little new with postgres but have a decent understanding of roles. What I have are users that inherit from their normal "data_analyst" group. This group is used to manage all data analyst users ...
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Best practise for polymorphic associations in MySQL
I have a MySQL database with 3 tables holding the main classes of data:
companies (company_id)
persons (person_id, company_id)
loans (loan_id, company_id)
Both a 'loan' and a 'person' belong ...
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Postgresql inheritance based database design
I'm developing a simple babysitter application that has 2 types of users: a 'Parent' and the 'Babysitter'. I'm using postgresql as my database but I'm having trouble working out my database design.
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Modeling a product database and dealing with inheritance
So, to get better at designing databases, I'm attempting to model a database system after the AR15 Builder.
Here is what I have so far:
While it makes sense logically, I'm afraid there may be ...
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Is it possible to set order in which inherited tables a scanned in postgresql?
I have a postgresql measurement table which is partitioned based on logdate column by month. Suppose I have city_id integer column and want to select latest row with city_id = 125.
When I run explain ...
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