On 29 Jul 2002, Hannu Krosing 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. > > It is mostly a syntactic thing that makes it easier to humans to write > cleaner code.
And how is using table inheritance "cleaner" than doing it the relational way? It adds extra complexity to the system, which is automatically a reduction in cleanliness, so it would have to have some correspondingly cleanliness-increasing advantages in order to be cleaner, overall. 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 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
