Re: Inheritance

From: Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inheritance
Date: 2002-08-14 14:39:06
Message-ID: 1029335947.13277.34.camel@mouse.copelandconsulting.net
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:43, Curt Sampson wrote:
> Just my opinion of course, but I think it would be best to have a
> detailed description of how everything in inheritance is supposed to
> work, write a set of tests from that, and then fix the implementation to
> conform to the tests.
>
> And I think a detailed description comes most easily when you have
> a logical model to work from.

I completely agree. This is why I want/wanted to pursue the theory and
existing implementations angle.

Seems like everyone trying to jump on "index spanning" is premature.

Doesn't Oracle have table inheritance? Hmmm...I might have to go do
some reading to find out one way or anther... ;)

Sign,
Greg Copeland

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