From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
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Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Subject: Re: create table like: ACCESS METHOD
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 17:01:33 +0900
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Hmm. The problem is that the LIKE clause is really a macro that expands to
> the column definitions of the other table. So there is, so far, no such as
> thing as two LIKE clauses contradicting. Whereas the access method is a
> table property. So I don't think this syntax is the right approach for this
> feature.
>
> You might think about something like
>
> CREATE TABLE t2 (...) USING (LIKE t1);
>
> At least in terms of how the syntax should be structured.
Good point. I have marked the patch as RwF.
--
Michael
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