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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 22:46:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Xinguo Wei <wei@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Does 'inherits' support set-field?
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Hi,

I got an error message from the following test case.

create emp (name = char16, dept = char16, age = int4) \g
append emp (name = "john", dept = "EE", age = 29) \g
create dept (name = char16, members = setof emp) \g
create school_dept (school_name = char16) inherits (dept) \g
append school_dept (school_name = "UW", name = "EE",
	members = "retrieve (emp.all) where emp.dept = \\"EE\\"") \g

Postgres complaint the last append query:
WARN:Jan 29 22:31:55:pg_atoi: error in "retrieve (emp.all) where emp.dept 
= "EE" ": can't parse "retrieve (emp.all) where emp.dept = "EE""

I have no problem to append class dept.  It seems to me Postgres 4.2 does not
support the inherits on the set-field.  Is it true? What will be a 
possible work-around? Thanks!

My platform is Dec OSF/1.

Xinguo Wei


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