| From: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL? |
| Date: | 2002-07-30 11:02:44 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.44.0207302000510.436-100000@angelic.cynic.net |
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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
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