On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: > I found the following error message misleading: > > test=# create table cows2 (LIKE cows); > ERROR: inherited relation "cows" is not a table > STATEMENT: create table cows2 (LIKE cows); > > I'm not trying to inherit a relation, I'm trying to base a table on > it. As it happens, "cows" is a foreign table, which *is* a table, > just not a regular table. It might be useful to add support to clone > foreign tables into regular tables, the use-case being that you may > wish to import all the data locally into a table of the same > structure. But the gripe here is the suggestion that the relation > would have been inherited, which would actually be achieved using > INHERITS.
Interesting. I agree that there's no obvious reason why that shouldn't be allowed to work. Could be useful with views, too. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
