Re: Typed tables
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: James Pye <lists@jwp.name>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-05T20:50:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On tor, 2009-11-05 at 11:41 -0700, James Pye wrote: > Any plans to allow the specification of multiple types to define the > table? > > "CREATE TABLE employee OF employee_data_type, persons_data_type;" Not really, but it does open up interesting possibilities, if we just allow composite types to participate in inheritance relationships. Think abstract base class. That's pretty much the idea. Come to think of it, that's how the SQL standard defined inheritance. Sounds interesting. And might actually be simpler to implement.