On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Isn't inheritance kinda one of those things that is required in order to > be consider ourselves ORBDMS, which we do classify our selves as being?
Well, it depends on what you call an ORDBMS. By the standards of Date and Darwen in _The Third Manifesto_, table inheritance is not required and is in fact discouraged as a feature trivially implemented with views, foreign keys and constraints. (Though that does not mean that posgresql currently has an implementation of these that will make it trivial.) 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 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
