Inheritance (was: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Inheritance (was: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?)
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In response to Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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> > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance
> > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started
> > to come up with anything.
> and
> > there is nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the
> > relational model does not handle
> 
> That's the other one.

Irrelevant - thousands of people are using the feature!

Chris




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