[don't cc: me, please.] [please leave proper attribution in] On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:45, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it > > > ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.
[Inheritance] > > How about dropping it, then? [...] > Why? It doesn't hurt you personally! That's correct. > Plus, it would annoy a _boatload_ of > existing inheritance users. Bruce Momjian: > It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system. That's one reason. Curt Sampson wrote: > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started > to come up with anything. and > there is nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the > relational model does not handle That's the other one. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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