[SQL] Semantics of Typed Numeric Constants

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Butler
think it makes a lot of sense to maintain semantic differences between different representations of the same number. (Oracle certainly doesn't) Any comments? - Mark Butler ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

[SQL] Inheritance Semantics

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Butler
would be much better to add a new keyword / extension to the DDL syntax so that true ODMG style inheritance can be implemented correctly without breaking old applications. Any comments would be appreciated. - Mark Butler ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP