When to use inherited tables in PostgreSQL?

Question

In which situations you should use inherited tables? I tried to use them very briefly and inheritance didn\'t seem like in OOP world.

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Answer 1

Inheritance can be used in an OOP paradigm as long as you do not need to create foreign keys on the parent table. By example, if you have an abstract class vehicle stored in a vehicle table and a table car that inherits from it, all cars will be visible in the vehicle table but a foreign key from a driver table on the vehicle table won't match theses records.

Inheritance can be also used as a partitionning tool. This is especially usefull when you have tables meant to be growing forever (log tables etc).