RE: Supertypes?

Guess it's inheritance.. Quite the same as it is in C++

Well no big deal if pg does not support it. It's just because we learned
some rules about data redundancy :o)

Thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Morgan [mailto:len-morgan(at)crcom(dot)net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:10 PM
> To: Christian Marschalek; [GENERAL] PostgreSQL
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Supertypes?
>
>
> I believe you are talking about inheritance which Postgres
> does support. I suggest the User's Manual for the details.
>
> len
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Marschalek <cm(at)chello(dot)at>
> To: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:08 AM
> Subject: [GENERAL] Supertypes?
>
>
> >In school we've learned about supertypes. I don't know if the raw
> >translation is correct so here is an example: Supertype
> human with the
> >attributes name,age,size. Now I can derrive types from it... For
> >example -> employe with even more attributes like personal id.
> >
> >Can I realise this in PostgreSQL? And if yes, would anybody please
> >explain how, or point me to the right documentation?
> >
> >Thanks and regards, Christian Marschalek
> >
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