On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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. > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it > ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.
Ah, all the more reason to remove it, then! :-) But really, please don't take that as a criticism of the current development direction; I know it was inherited, and it's not new code. In fact, I think it probably wasn't until _The Third Manifsto_ came out in 1998 that it really became clear that table inheritance was not terribly useful--if it's even generally known now. And even so, I'm open to other opinions on that, since it's not been an intensive area of study by any means. > > All that said, though, don't take this as any kind of a dismissal of > > postgres. It's in most ways better than MySQL and also some commericial > > systems, and many of its failures are being addressed. Postgres for some > > reason seems to attract some really, really smart people to work on it. > > If I could see something better, I'd be there. But I don't. > > Interbase/Firebird maybe? They just came out with a 1.0 release in March. Once in a while I go back to it, but I still can't build the darn thing from scratch. Which makes it a bit difficult to evaluate.... > As for why PostgreSQL is less popular than MySQL, I think it is all > momentum from 1996 when MySQL worked and we sometimes crashed. Right. I have a lot of hope. After all, MySQL was for a couple of years a second-runner to mSQL, remember? cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
