| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Auto-updated fields |
| Date: | 2008-05-08 20:40:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1210279217.6593.1.camel@huvostro |
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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> writes:
> > I may be wrong but my feeling is, not to much weirdness in the core
> > please :)
>
> +1 ... we have wasted more than enough man-hours trying to get the magic
> "serial" type to play nicely. If I had it to do over, we'd never have
> put that in at all. The underlying mechanisms are perfectly good ---
> it's the idea that the user shouldn't need to know what they're doing
> that causes problems.
This kind of hiding will mostly hit the Leaky Abstraction "pattern"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
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Hannu
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