Re: types inheritance

> Dear Bruce,
>
> many thanks for your answer.
>
> Yes, I wanted to know if it is / will be also possible to have types inherited
> from other primitive types. This is, for instance, what happens in Oracle and
> SpatialWare. In these databases I am able to write different types of
> geometric primitives in the same column of a table.
>
> A type point or circle or line inherits from some geometric superclass (say
> GEO). The consequence is that if one wants to store points, circles,... in the
> same atribute he just need to declare this atribute as beeing of type GEO.
>
> This would probably make my life easier. I looked for inheritance in
> postgresql, but I only found it for tables.
>
> Do you understand that?

Yes. I am CC'ing this to general to see if anyone has comments.

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