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Re: Typed tables

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-11T07:00:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On sön, 2010-01-10 at 15:27 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 1/10/10 2:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2009-11-05 at 19:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I'm planning to work on typed tables support.  The idea is that you
> >> create a table out of a composite type (as opposed to the other way
> >> around, which is currently done automatically).
> 
> Nice.  Can we come up with a better name for the feature, though?
> "Composite Type Tables"?  "Type-Table Inheritance"?

"Typed tables" is the official SQL standard name for the feature, and
it's also used in DB2 documentation.  So I kind of would prefer to keep
it.