Re: Can I add a super table to existing tables?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:10:02PM -0700, Jun Yang wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:53 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:28:54PM -0700, Jun Yang wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I want to add some common columns to all of my tables.
> > >
> > > Your case may be very special, but offhand, this sounds like a
> > > very bad idea. What task is it you're trying to accomplish?
> >
> > Very simple. I have columns update_by and updated_at that I want
> > every table to have but don't want to add them one by one.
>
> This sounds like you're working your way up to some kind of logging
> system :)
>
> Check out the tablelog <http://pgfoundry.org/projects/tablelog/>
>

Very interesting. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

> Cheers,
> David.

Jun

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