From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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To: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: SQL99 CREATE TABLE ... (LIKE parent_table) |
Date: | 2003-05-13 14:15:59 |
Message-ID: | 1052835358.1922.26.camel@fuji.krosing.net |
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Rod Taylor kirjutas T, 13.05.2003 kell 15:40:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 05:08, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > Tom Lane kirjutas E, 12.05.2003 kell 17:59:
> > > Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> > > > Quick patch to add the subject. Restructures all inheritance to consist
> > > > of a few flags to indicate which structures we want to inherit
> > >
> > > I think overloading the inheritance mechanism to serve this purpose is a
> > > bad idea.
> >
> > Are you sure that LIKE is not _supposed_ to be inheritable. I mean that
> > changes done to the LIKE table should carry over to the table defined
> > using LIKE:
>
> > create table template( i int);
> > create table instance(like template, t text);
> > alter table template add column j int;
> >
> > and now instance should have columns i,j,t .
>
> It is described as being replaced by the column definitions within the
> new table, with no mention of connection to the parent table..
>
> 11.3, 6, d) "The <like clause> is effectively replaced by NCi, 1 (one)
> <= i <= cnt"
Is this different from UNDER, i.e does it's definition mention
connection with parent table ?
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Hannu
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