> When an administrator wishes to reconfigure the replication hierarchy, which
> would be a relatively rare event, then they can explictly log in to

I'm going to argue against the assumption that this is a rare event. In
fact, if you are replicating a partitioned table the reconfiguration
will occur once per partition creation which could be quite frequent
(say hourly on several structures).

I will also argue against the assumption that it is an administrator
doing the reconfiguration by hand rather than an automated toolkit.

Of course, creation of an inherited table requires ownership of the
parent and create privileges -- not full superuser access.

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