On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:15, Curt Sampson wrote: > On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > > Is _The Third Manifesto_ available online ? > > No. It's a book, and not a terribly small one, either. > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201709287/ > > > Could you brief me why do they discourage a syntactical frontent to a > > feature that is trivially implemented ? > > What's the point of adding it? It's just one more thing to learn.
You don't have to learn it if you don't want to. But once you do, you have a higher level way of expressing a whole class of models. Your argument can as well be used against VIEWs - whats the point of having them, when they can trivially be implemented using ON XXX DO INSTEAD rules. -------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
