Can I specify a discriminator column with a table-per-type mapping?

Unfortunately this is not supported. Discriminator column can be used only in TPH. TPT differs entity types by mapped tables and it always produces those terrible queries.It could be nice feature so perhaps suggestion on Data UserVoice would make it implemented one day.

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