Re: Supertypes?

I believe that what you are looking for is
inheritance.

http://postgresql.readysetnet.com/devel-corner/docs/user/inherit.html

I hope this is helpful,
Jason Earl

--- Christian Marschalek <cm(at)chello(dot)at> wrote:
> In school we've learned about supertypes. I don't
> know if the raw
> translation is correct so here is an example:
> Supertype human with the attributes name,age,size.
> Now I can derrive types from it... For example ->
> employe with even more
> attributes like personal id.
>
> Can I realise this in PostgreSQL? And if yes, would
> anybody please
> explain how, or point me to the right documentation?
>
> Thanks and regards, Christian Marschalek
>
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