From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>
To: James Adams <pornstarbatman@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Selecting * from the base table but getting the inheriteds
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:05:19 +0100
Message-ID: <3DBF92BF.4080506@klaster.net> (raw)
References: <OE50hCLwHc9ny7BXx4X00000bd3@hotmail.com>
Uz.ytkownik James Adams napisa?:
> Hello,
>
> I have a "baseTable". I have a number of decendantTables that INHERIT
> from the base table.
>
> I want to do somthing like
>
> =>select * from baseTable;
>
> But I want it to return the data in the all the descendant tables along
> with the extra column that they contain. How do I do this?
>
select
*,
cast(null as varchar) as another_field1,
cast(null as int4) as another_field2
from only basetable
union
select
*
from descent_table
Isn't it easier to just create baseTable with the same columns as
descent tables (and fill them with nulls)?
Tomasz Myrta
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