Inheritance (was: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?)

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Inheritance (was: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?)
Date: 2002-07-30 13:48:37
Message-ID: 002a01c237cf$cf2176f0$0200a8c0@SOL
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> > 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.
> and
> > there is nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the
> > relational model does not handle
>
> That's the other one.

Irrelevant - thousands of people are using the feature!

Chris

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