Re: Inheritance docs error.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Paul Govereau <pgoverea@akamai.com>
Cc: <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-30T14:47:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Paul Govereau writes:

> I have noticed some errors in the 7.1 Documentation.
> Specifically, in the sections involving inheritance.
>
> In Chapter 8. it shows syntax of:
>  create table <name> UNDER <name> ( ... )
>
> In Reference Manual CREATE TABLE shows syntax of:
>  create table <name> ( ... ) under <name>
>
> In psql, \h create table shows syntax of:
>  create table <name> ( ... ) inherits (<name>)
>
> It seems that the last one is correct -- or at least works for me.

They are all correct:  UNDER is the new SQL99 syntax, INHERITS is the
traditional Postgres syntax.  The reason that psql \h shows the old syntax
is that the current snapshots are distributed with the old (7.0)
documentation, whereas you probably got the first two things off the web.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/