On 12/01/2010 09:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
ghatpa...@vsnl.net writes:
Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields into
single location for maintenance. It may not be useful to link tables.
It's still unclear what this does that you don't get from inheritance,
typed tables, use of a table's rowtype as a field type, or CREATE TABLE
LIKE. This isn't exactly virgin territory.
Yeah. Actually, the whole thing reminded me somewhat of the pre-RDBMS
data stores I worked with 25 years or so ago. "Those who cannot remember
history are doomed to repeat it."
cheers
andrew
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