Re: Typo in the Section "3.6. Inheritance"

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:09:31PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:36 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Aug  5, 2020 at 11:29:31PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> 
>     > Removing "char" from the tutorial is a nice side-effect that we probably
>     want
>     > to do even if we keep "state".
> 
>     I think CHAR(2) is fine because it is always 2 characters.
> 
> 
> You imply "it is always two non-blank characters" though that isn't what CHAR
> (2) means.  Adding CHECK (state ~ '^[A-Z]{2}$') and leaving the type as text
> would be best from a pure model perspective - but this isn't the place to teach
> that and for the same reason char(2) isn't terrible.
> 
> 
>     How is the attached patch, based on your suggestions?
> 
> 
> Works for me.

Patch applied back through 9.5.

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