On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:31:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What *is* broken is table inheritance, and the docs need to reflect > > this. > > The combination of inheritance with certain other features is broken, > yes, and the docs do reflect that (see the bottom of > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/ddl-inherit.html > for example). > > I will grant you that this page is a near duplicate of the > tutorial's discussion of inheritance, which is surely bad --- either > they should be exact duplicates, or one or the other needs > rewriting. But I'm not really going to hold still for the docs on > inheritance being rewritten by someone who considers the entire > concept broken. Maybe we can get elein to do it ;-)
I don't consider the concept broken. The implementation is, in fact, broken, and putting that broken piece in the tutorial is, imnsho, a bad mistake. Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
