Re: 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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