Re: CREATE TABLE AS standard? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: CREATE TABLE AS standard?
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Msg-id 390DAAD5.18393C92@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: CREATE TABLE AS standard?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> I covered SELECT...INTO in my book, with a short paragraph showing
> CREATE TABLE...AS is equivalent.  Which one should I use in my book as
> the preferred?

imho CREATE TABLE/AS should be emphasized, since SELECT/INTO hides the
fact that a table gets created, which is a fundamental operation here.
DDF vs DDL vs some other acronym etc etc.
                    - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California


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