| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: About inheritance |
| Date: | 2004-06-30 23:34:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20040630233404.GA24714@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:57:22PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Merlin,
>
> > I can't really comment on 'ripping out' strategies, but I don't think
> > there would be many complaints of inheritance was relegated to a
> > footnote in the docs and the default GUC setting was defaulted to
> > 'false'.
>
> Why? What harm is inheritance doing where it is? Per Elein, Joe and
> Chris, people *are* using it.
I'm not advocating removing the feature (I just asked), but if real
table partitioning was included, would they still use it?
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)
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