Re: [GENERAL] Relational Inheritance Features.

2006-01-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:31:49AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > Actually, lack of DEFINE is a major gap in SQL itself. Most modern > programming languages make a distinction between *defining* a > ???multi-variable > precursor??? (sort of a light weight type) and *instantiating* a variable.

[GENERAL] Relational Inheritance Features.

2006-01-06 Thread Trent Shipley
Relational Inheritance Supporting Features Perhaps the most important deficit in Postgresql's current INHERITS model is hard to detect. That deficit is the inability to name inheritance classes themselves. One has to refer to the _per se_ class by referencing an associated table. While it i