Creating tables with unknown type columns

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Creating tables with unknown type columns
Date: 2001-08-09 19:15:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0108092112470.698-100000@peter.localdomain
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Is it a good idea to allow creating tables with columns of type "unknown"?
This is generally a user error with an ambiguous CREATE TABLE AS and there
isn't a whole lot you can do with such a table. Should it be an error?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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