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

Use it as little as possible. And that usually means never, it boiling down to a way of creating structures that violate the relational model, for instance by breaking the information principle and by creating bags instead of relations.

Instead, use table partitioning combined with proper relational modelling, including further normal forms.