Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-07-31 04:31:15
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.44.0207311330010.493-100000@angelic.cynic.net
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > You can add children without modifying your code. It is classic C++
> > > inheritance; parent table accesses work with the new child tables
> > > automatically.
> >
> > I don't see how my method doesn't do this as well. What code do you have
> > to modify in the relational way of doing things that you don't in this
> > inheritance way?
>
> Seems like you have to modify your views to handle this, at least in the
> example you just posted, right?

You need to create a new view for the "child" table, yeah. But you had to
create a child table anyway. But all the previously existing code you had
continues to work unchanged.

cjs
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