Trent, although I cannot contribute much of anything to your line of thought I'd encourage you to keep on with it as it'd be highly desirable (for GNUmed at least) to have a stronger/ more encompassing inheritance solution in PostgreSQL. Karsten, GNUmed developer -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
