Re: Inheritance docs error. - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Inheritance docs error.
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0012302007350.776-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Inheritance docs error.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >> It seems that the last one is correct -- or at least works for me.
>
> > They are all correct:  UNDER is the new SQL99 syntax, INHERITS is the
> > traditional Postgres syntax.
>
> Current docs do appear to be erroneous: they claim the UNDER phrase goes
> where INHERIT does, which is not what the grammar thinks.  I haven't
> looked at SQL99 to see which is right.

The grammar appears to be correct to the extent that SQL99 wants the UNDER
before the column list, so I corrected the documentation at that point.
However, the syntax as a whole is not SQL99-compliant.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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