You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to derby-dev@db.apache.org by "Dyre Tjeldvoll (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2013/09/26 13:47:03 UTC

[jira] [Updated] (DERBY-6340) Add support for CREATE TYPE AS (synonym types)

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6340?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Dyre Tjeldvoll updated DERBY-6340:
----------------------------------

    Attachment: CreateTypeAs_fs_draft.html

Attaching a first draft of the functional specification.
                
> Add support for CREATE TYPE AS <existing type> (synonym types)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-6340
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6340
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Dyre Tjeldvoll
>            Assignee: Dyre Tjeldvoll
>         Attachments: CreateTypeAs_fs_draft.html
>
>
> The SQL standard (2003) chapter 11.41 <user-defined type definition> allows the creation of synonyms or aliases for an existing type: CREATE TYPE AS <predefined type>. By allowing this in Derby we would simplify migration from, and interoperation with, other databases.

--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira