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

The only experience I have with inherited tables, is in partioning. It works fine but it's not the most sophisticated and easy to use part of PostgreSQL.

Last week we were looking the same OOP issue, but we had too many problems with Hibernate (didn't like our setup), so we didn't use inheritance in PostgreSQL.