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Re: security label support, part.2

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-18T02:40:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
KaiGai,

* KaiGai Kohei (kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com) wrote:
> I believed that table inheritance is a unique feature in PostgreSQL.

It's actually not..

> Does the SQL spec really mention about whether a child table is an
> independent table object, or not?

The SQL spec does discuss 'subtables' and inheiritance.  It also does
describe some information under 'Access Rules' regarding these
sub-tables (check the 'table definition' clause).  I've been looking at
them and trying to make some sense out of what I see.

	Thanks,

		Stephen