Yea it would be easier to have everything in one table filling unused with nulls, but I was trying to avoid that because of the wasted space.
But I think I'll do it that way after all :~] Thanks for your help ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomasz Myrta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [SQL] Selecting * from the base table but getting the inheriteds > Uz.ytkownik James Adams napisa?: > > Hello, > > > > I have a "baseTable". I have a number of decendantTables that INHERIT > > from the base table. > > > > I want to do somthing like > > > > =>select * from baseTable; > > > > But I want it to return the data in the all the descendant tables along > > with the extra column that they contain. How do I do this? > > > > select > *, > cast(null as varchar) as another_field1, > cast(null as int4) as another_field2 > from only basetable > union > select > * > from descent_table > > Isn't it easier to just create baseTable with the same columns as > descent tables (and fill them with nulls)? > > Tomasz Myrta > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
