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Re: [SQL] inheritance

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 1998-05-29T18:58:13Z

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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