On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:31, ivan wrote:
> > What do you think about :
> >
> > 1. OPTION RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT (when function is created) change to
> > RETURNS <val> ON NULL INPUT .... ???
>
> I personally think this should be up to the specific function to
> capture. This way it could be a complex result.
>
> > 2. CREATE TYPE .. with INHERITS (..) like in CREATE TABLE
> > but type should be normaly with including base type
> > create type A AS (A INT,B INT);
> > and
> > create type B AS (C INT, D INT) INHERITS( A ); ==
> > create type B AS (A INT, B INT, C INT, D INT );
> > can be ??
>
> I like this. The equivalent table syntax for absorbing table structure
> into another table is LIKE:
>
> CREATE TABLE othertable (acol integer);
> CREATE TABLE a (col integer, LIKE othertable, anothercol integer);
>
> I could see:
>
> CREATE TYPE a AS (a integer, b integer);
> CREATE TYPE b AS (LIKE a, c integer, d integer);
>
This way is very good !!
I see i thing :
CREATE TABLE a AS (a int, b int);
CREATE TABLE b AS (x a.a%ROWTYPE, a int, b a.b%ROWTYPE);
like in plpgsql...
May be there should be others word , but i want to show my view .. :>
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