Re: [SQL] inheritance

Bernhard Matthias Ertl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>only two short questions:
>+ does the postgresql 6.2.1 already support inheritance and
>+ if I have the tables cities and capitals (like in the tutorial), how can
>I add attributes of a city to a capital? Before the capital attributes,
>after the capital attributes or do I have to insert a capital citiy into
>the table city as well as into the table capital?
A descendant automatically inherits all attributes from its ancestor(s).

Try \d and see.

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