Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>
To: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-07-30 09:51:45
Message-ID: 1028022705.12616.51.camel@atlas
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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:45, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it
> > > ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

[Inheritance]

> > How about dropping it, then?
[...]

> Why? It doesn't hurt you personally!

That's correct.

> Plus, it would annoy a _boatload_ of
> existing inheritance users.

Bruce Momjian:
> It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

That's one reason.

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.
and
> there is nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the
> relational model does not handle

That's the other one.

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