On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for which
> any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial is liable
> to become quite short.

Are there other pieces that are broken?  As far as I know, the only
documented feature in PostgreSQL that is is table inheritance.

Anyhow, there are lots of ways to highlight the object-relational
features that PostgreSQL provides.  Table inheritance just isn't a
good one.

Cheers,
D
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