inheritance...

Ran into something really unexpected, but then I've never tried using
inherited tables.

I have a master table (named master) that has two child tables.

create table master (
id serial,
foo varchar(20),
bar varchar(20),
constraint foobar_master unique (foo,bar)
);

Now when I do this with just a table, the unique constraint works.

But when I have child tables:

create table slave (
status varchar(20),
deleted boolean default false
) inherits (master);

I seem to lose that unique constraint. Which makes for a HUGE problem.

Am I missing something in the fine print?