On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Leon Mergen wrote:
On 3/19/08, Leon Mergen <leon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excuse me for bumping this up again, but I still don't understand how
to use this approach to sequentially walk through all different child
tables in one select, without having to JOIN these tables all the
time
Apparently a UNION all solved this problem -- sorry for the noise.
If you have the child tables INHERITing from the parent, then a simple
SELECT parent.* FROM parent;
would be equivalent to manually spelling out a UNION ALL that
explicitly lists all of the tables.
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