Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase
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Msg-id 15327.1291214468@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase  (ghatpande@vsnl.net)
Responses Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase  (ghatpande@vsnl.net)
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ghatpande@vsnl.net writes:
> Create domain is only useful for abstracting common constraints on fields into single location for maintenance. It
maynot be useful to link tables.
 

It's still unclear what this does that you don't get from inheritance,
typed tables, use of a table's rowtype as a field type, or CREATE TABLE
LIKE.  This isn't exactly virgin territory.
        regards, tom lane


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