I missed the first part of this question.
But perhaps I can explain the answer if I heard
the whole question. Both Illustra (postgres) and Informix
implemented typed tables.
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:19:06PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > >>> 4.16.2 Referenceable tables, subtables, and supertables
> > >>> A table BT whose row type is derived from a structured type ST is
> > >>> called a typed table. Only a base table or a view can be a typed
> > >>> table. A typed table has columns corresponding, in name and
> > >>> declared type, to every attribute of ST and one other column REFC
> > >>> that is the self-referencing column of BT; let REFCN be the
> >
> > > After re-reading it, I think it is related to (or at least similar to)
> > > the work Tom is currently doing to allow composite types as table
> > > attributes.
> >
> > The "structured type" stuff seems closely related, but I do not
> > understand the business about a "self-referencing column". I have a
> > feeling that it might be a mutant version of our notion of inheritance
> > ...
>
> hmm, for some moments I thought on things like the OID attribute
> (on "system generated attrs")
>
> Who we could ask to explain that ?!
>
> cu
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