Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date
Msg-id 200207301441.02285.list-pgsql-hackers@empires.org
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In response to Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
Responses Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
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> 2. I expect that even most PostgreSQL--or even database--experts don't
> have a real understanding of relational theory, anyway. That we still
> have table inheritance shows that. As far as I can tell, there is
> nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the relational model
> does not handle; the whole "OO" thing is just another, redundant way of
> doing what we already ought to be able to do within the relational model.
>
> 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.

Can you point me (someone without a real understanding of relational theory) 
to some good resources that explain the concepts well?

Regards,Jeff


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