From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Ying Lu <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL command Error: "create table ... Like parentTable including defaults"
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:17:22 -0600
Message-ID: <20050527161722.GA31451@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42974157.201@cs.concordia.ca>
References: <42974157.201@cs.concordia.ca>
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:48:39AM -0400, Ying Lu wrote:
>
> create table tableName1 LIKE parentTable INCLUDING defaults ;
>
> I was trying to create table "tableName1" with the same structure as
> "parentTable" without any data. I got a syntax error:
> 'syntax error at or near "like" ... '
The CREATE TABLE documentation shows that LIKE should be in parentheses:
CREATE TABLE tableName1 (LIKE parentTable INCLUDING DEFAULTS);
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createtable.html
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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