On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[email protected]> writes: > > Given that the main (and only sane, IMHO) use for table inheritance is > > in table partitioning, can we see about deprecating ONLY (in the table > > inheritance sense) for the next couple of development cycles and then > > removing it? > > No. > > 1. It's required by SQL standard.
Well blow me down! I had no idea the SQL standard had this wart in it. > 2. Just because you don't have a use for it doesn't mean no one does. Clearly the SQL standards committee does, and their usage controls ;) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
