Re: Type inheritance

Mhm...maybe. I need that thing for just 1 table... Have you seen the Oracle 
example? Do you know if I can do a similar thing in PostgreSQL?

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From: "Jasen Betts" <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.db.postgresql.sql
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Type inheritance


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> On 2009-06-06, Gianvito Pio <pio.gianvito@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Oh that was just an example...Let me make a real example:
>> I have a table "Sensors" (that has to contain different sensor types) 
>> with
>> a Value. That value doesn't have to be fixed, but I want to define it in 
>> a
>> way that it changes its structure when the sensor type changes. For
>> example, for Temperature sensor I would like to have just a float number,
>> but for the humidity I could need of absolute and relative humidity
>> (2 floats). I'd just like to know if I can say that the VALUE is a 
>> composite
>> type...that I have then to specialize in Temp Type and Humidity 
>> type...using
>> them in their particular case.
>
> this appears to be EAV in disguise.
>
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