| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: new idea |
| Date: | 2007-04-09 14:14:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20070409141446.GD16486@phlogiston.dyndns.org |
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:11:57AM -0500, Erik Jones wrote:
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> I don't really even see the need for inheritance here. This is what
> most ORMs do at the application level already.
Wel, sure, but the poster seemed to think that having a way to
represent this in the database was a good thing. (I'm not actually
convinced even of that. The whole point of SQL was to move away from
the hierarchical model, and so grafting a lot of hierarchy back onto
it suggests to me that the OP has picked the wrong technology for the
problem at the outset.)
A
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