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Re: Thus spoke SQL3 (on OO)

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Chris <chris@bitmead.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-21T18:42:03Z
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Chris wrote:
> 
> 
> > What exactly IDENTITY is is still a bit unclear to me but it is
> > definitely not the proposed identification of the table a row came
> > from.
> 
> How do you know?
> 
> > * Cloning
> > CREATE TABLE name (
> >     colname type,
> >     colname type,
> >     LIKE other_table,
> >     colname type,
> >     ...
> > );
> 
> Hmm. Fairly useless feature IMO.

The main use would be for those users who are using INHERITS with
current
PostgreSQL and need to port from it.

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Hannu