On 30 Jul 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 14:51, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian: > > > It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system. > > > > That's one reason. > > Seems like somewhat valid reason. But still not enough to do a lot of > work _and_ annoy a lot of existing users :)
It's almost unquestionably more work to maintain than to drop. Dropping support for it is a one-time operation. Maintaining it is an ongoing expense. > That's quite bogus imho. You could just as well argue that there is > nothing that relational model handles that can't be done in pure C. That's a straw man argument. What we (or I, anyway) are arguing is that the relational model does everything that table inheritance does, and at least as easily. Extending the model adds complexity without adding the ability to do things you couldn't easily do before. (This, IMHO, makes table inheritance quite inelegant.) cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
