Creating a New Class

You can create a new class by specifying the class name, along with all attribute names and their types:

CREATE TABLE weather (
    city            varchar(80),
    temp_lo         int,           -- low temperature
    temp_hi         int,           -- high temperature
    prcp            real,          -- precipitation
    date            date
);

Note that keywords are case-insensitive and identifiers are usually case-insensitive. Postgres allows SQL92 delimited identifiers (identifiers surrounded by double-quotes) to include mixed-case and spaces, tabs, etc.

Postgres SQL supports the usual SQL types int, float, real, smallint, char(N), varchar(N), date, time, and timestamp, as well as other types of general utility and a rich set of geometric types. As we will see later, Postgres can be customized with an arbitrary number of user-defined data types. Consequently, type names are not syntactical keywords, except where required to support special cases in the SQL92 standard. So far, the Postgres create command looks exactly like the command used to create a table in a traditional relational system. However, we will presently see that classes have properties that are extensions of the relational model.