Josh Berkus wrote:
>>4.16.2 Referenceable tables, subtables, and supertables
>> A table BT whose row type is derived from a structured type ST is
>> called a typed table. Only a base table or a view can be a typed
>> table. A typed table has columns corresponding, in name and
>> declared type, to every attribute of ST and one other column REFC
>> that is the self-referencing column of BT; let REFCN be the
>>
>>I really don't quite understand this, but I don't think we have it ;-)
> Was the SQL99 Committee smoking crack, or what? What the heck is that
> *for*?
After re-reading it, I think it is related to (or at least similar to)
the work Tom is currently doing to allow composite types as table
attributes.
Joe