First, I'll address concerns about duplicates:
Here's a example of the problem I'm facing:
table Document {
id: Id
name: string
type: ??
}
table FooDoc {
id: Id
// Foreign key to Document
docId: Id
qux: string
}
table BarDoc {
id: Id
// Foreign key to document
docId: Id
baz: number
}
Ideally, I'd like to make it so that in 1 query, I can
Is this possible?
There are six ways (afaik) to model table inheritance in relational databases. You chose the Permissive Class Table Inheritance option.
Now, you can use two left joins to retrieve information for child tables. The resulting columns from the non-matching type will be null.
For example:
select d.*, f.qux, b.baz
from document d
left join foodoc f on f.id = d.id
left join bardoc b on b.id = d.id
Result:
id name type qux baz
--- ----- ----- -------- ----
20 baz1 2 null 1240
10 foo1 1 content null
See running example at DB Fiddle . As you can see, column qux
is null for type 2 and column baz is null for type 1.
The sample structure for this example is shown below:
create table document (
id int primary key not null,
name varchar(10),
type int not null check (type in (1, 2))
);
insert into document (id, name, type) values
(10, 'foo1', 1),
(20, 'baz1', 2);
create table foodoc (
id int primary key not null references document(id),
qux varchar(10)
);
insert into foodoc (id, qux) values (1, 'content');
create table bardoc (
id int primary key not null references document(id),
baz int
);
insert into bardoc (id, baz) values (2, 1240);
Note : Also please consider that to fully implement integrity you would need to include the type
column in both foreign keys.
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