On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 10:17, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:39:06AM -0500, Greg Copeland wrote: > > I completely agree. This is why I want/wanted to pursue the theory and > > existing implementations angle. > > In theory, it sounds like a good idea. In practice ... ;-) >
LOL. :) > > Seems like everyone trying to jump on "index spanning" is premature. > > Seems like some people haven't looked at the history of the OO > implementation in PostgreSQL. [waving hand...] > > Bruce has archived some of the emails - check your local pgsql source tree, > under <$PGSQLHOME>/doc/TODO.detail/inheritance > > There was also some theoretical OO discussion, back when the change for > default SELECT behavior on an inhertiance tree was made. (You used to > have to say: SELECT foo from parent* to get foo from the parent and all > children) Take a look at the archives and see if there's anything in that > discussion that interests you: providing summary posts of old discussions > is often a good way to restart and move an unresolved topic along. Thanks! I briefly read something about that in the archives. Excellent pointers. I'll check that out. If I have time, I'll try to summarize and post. Greg Copeland
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