Re: Inheritance docs error.
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Paul Govereau <pgoverea@akamai.com>, <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-30T19:12:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane writes: > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > >> 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. > > Current docs do appear to be erroneous: they claim the UNDER phrase goes > where INHERIT does, which is not what the grammar thinks. I haven't > looked at SQL99 to see which is right. The grammar appears to be correct to the extent that SQL99 wants the UNDER before the column list, so I corrected the documentation at that point. However, the syntax as a whole is not SQL99-compliant. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/