Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On tor, 2009-11-05 at 19:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
I'm planning to work on typed tables support. The idea is that you
create a table out of a composite type (as opposed to the other way
around, which is currently done automatically).
CREATE TYPE persons_type AS (name text, bdate date);
CREATE TABLE persons OF persons_type;
Or the fancy version:
CREATE TABLE persons OF persons_type ( PRIMARY KEY (name) );
And here is the first patch for that. The feature is complete as far as
I had wanted it. I would like to add ALTER TYPE support, but that can
come as a separate patch.
+1
ISTM that the ultimate would be a 'create table (...._) without storage'
(or some'm) and make 'create type' an alternate syntax for SQL
conformance. For various reasons, we've internally adopted using create
table for all composites and use a c-like naming convenstion of
appending _t to such beasts.
I'll just throw a little meat into the pack wolves....constraints....?
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