Please tell me that this is a prelude to MySQL supporting logical views!
regards,
Ben Scherrey
Michael Widenius wrote:
> >>>>> "indrek" == indrek siitan <tfr@stripped> writes:
>
> indrek> Hey,
> indrek> sorry, if i haven't found the thing i'm proposing in the manual,
> indrek> but a really neat thing that would help me a lot would be creating
> indrek> a table that has exactly the same structure as some other table.
> indrek> for example: CREATE TABLE table2 LIKE table1, that would create
> indrek> table table2 with exactly the same structure/keys as table1.
>
> We already have this on the TODO with a quite high priority:
>
> The syntax will be:
>
> CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT ... FROM ....
>
> All columns in 'table_name' will have the same types as the selected:
> columns!
