The inheritance example in the manual implies that the capital of New York
is New York City, but in reality it's Albany.
George Hartzell
following <command>INSERT</command> statement will fail:
<programlisting>
INSERT INTO cities (name, population, altitude, state)
-VALUES ('New York', NULL, NULL, 'NY');
+VALUES ('Albany', NULL, NULL, 'NY');
</programlisting>
We might hope that the data would somehow be routed to the
<structname>capitals</structname> table, but this does not happen: