Re: Typed tables

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Typed tables
Date: 2010-01-11 07:00:02
Message-ID: 1263193202.4609.2.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On sön, 2010-01-10 at 15:27 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 1/10/10 2:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2009-11-05 at 19:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I'm planning to work on typed tables support. The idea is that you
> >> create a table out of a composite type (as opposed to the other way
> >> around, which is currently done automatically).
>
> Nice. Can we come up with a better name for the feature, though?
> "Composite Type Tables"? "Type-Table Inheritance"?

"Typed tables" is the official SQL standard name for the feature, and
it's also used in DB2 documentation. So I kind of would prefer to keep
it.

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