Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-hackers(at)empires(dot)org>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-07-30 21:41:02
Message-ID: 200207301441.02285.list-pgsql-hackers@empires.org
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> 2. I expect that even most PostgreSQL--or even database--experts don't
> have a real understanding of relational theory, anyway. That we still
> have table inheritance shows that. As far as I can tell, there is
> nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the relational model
> does not handle; the whole "OO" thing is just another, redundant way of
> doing what we already ought to be able to do within the relational model.
>
> 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.

Can you point me (someone without a real understanding of relational theory)
to some good resources that explain the concepts well?

Regards,
Jeff

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