Re: CREATE TABLE with a column of type {table name}

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Ang Chin Han wrote:

> In Postgresql 7.3, a datatype can be int, text, etc, and also
> pseudo-types like RECORD, any, etc.
>
> These pseudo types are mainly used in CREATE FUNCTIONs, but what if it's
> used in a CREATE TABLE, esp. when the name of another table is used as a
> datatype?
[...]
>
> -- Hmmm... What if pseudo-types in CREATE TABLEs?
> -- *** THIS IS THE WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN ***
> CREATE TABLE bar(myfoo foo, c int);
>
> -- The only way I can think of to insert values into the table bar:
> SELECT INTO bar SELECT get_foo1(), 1;

You can write casts as well presumably to allow other inputs.

> -- How to retrieve data from bar?
> SELECT * FROM bar;
> ERROR:  Cannot display a value of type RECORD
>
> SELECT myfoo.a FROM bar;
> ERROR:  Attribute "myfoo.a" not found

However the syntax
 select a(myfoo),b(myfoo) from bar
should work.