Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> writes: > I recently stumbled over "typed tables" in Postgres > (there were several questions containing this on stackoverflow recently) > create type some_type as (id integer, data text); > create table some_table of some_type; > I wonder what the benefit of a typed table is and when this would be useful? AFAIK we implemented that only because it's in the SQL standard. Otherwise you might as well use, for instance, CREATE TABLE ... LIKE. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general