Using As with Inheritance?
Clark C. Evans <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>
From: Clark Evans <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>
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Cc: "pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-02-09T04:40:06Z
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I have a parallel inheritance going on, so I was wondering if there was a way to re-name a derived column? This would make my design clearer. ----------------- CREATE TABLE B ( NAME VARCHAR(10) ); CREATE TABLE C ( ... ) INHERITS(B); CREATE TABLE X ( A VARCHAR(10), B VARCHAR(10), CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (B) REFERENCES B(OID) ); CREATE TABLE Y ( B AS C, /* Syntatic Sugar */ D VARCHAR(10), CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (C) REFERENCES C(OID) ) INHERITS(X) Here, I've added the syntax "AS" to show that column A in table X, is called B in the derived table Y. Thank you for your thoughts. :) Clark Evans