Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Incidentally, did the following message ever make it to the list? I saw my
> carbon copy, but never received it from the list and never received any
> responses. Usually any suggestion of making tokens reserved words elicits
> screams of objections.
>
>
> Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
>> Tom Lane:
>>
>>
>>> ALTER TABLE childN DROP INHERITS old_parent;
>>> ALTER TABLE childN ADD INHERITS new_parent;
>>>
>> I think you would have to make INHERITS a reserved word to make that happen:
>>
>> stark=> create table integer (i integer);
>> CREATE TABLE
>> stark=> alter table test add inherits integer;
>> ALTER TABLE
>>
>>
Yes it did.
Syntax like this would probably not require making it a reserved word:
ALTER TABLE foo ALTER INHERITS ADD|DROP bar
Maybe a bit uglier, but not too much.
cheers
andrew