Re: [HACKERS] Table Inheritance Discussion

2002-08-11 Thread Curt Sampson
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Don Baccus wrote: > It's just type extensibility, really. Yeah. > As to why, again there's an efficiency argument, as I said earlier some > joins can be avoided given PG's implementation of this feature: > [TI and relational examples deleted] What you gave is not the relat

Re: [HACKERS] Table Inheritance Discussion

2002-08-11 Thread Don Baccus
Curt Sampson wrote: > The last question comes up because, during the conversation up to this > point, we seem to have implicitly accepted that table inheritance is > an "object-oriented" way of doing things. Thinking further on this, > however, I've decided that it's not in fact object-oriented a

[HACKERS] Table Inheritance Discussion

2002-08-11 Thread Curt Sampson
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jordan Henderson wrote: > I think what would be useful is to discuss the theory part. As do I. > - Date has 3, however his most current work is dated 2000, The Third > Manifesto SECOND EDITION. This is actually Date and Darwen. I think we should also add Date's _An Introdu