Re: About inheritance - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: About inheritance
Date
Msg-id 20040630233404.GA24714@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: About inheritance  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:57:22PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Merlin,
>
> > I can't really comment on 'ripping out' strategies, but I don't think
> > there would be many complaints of inheritance was relegated to a
> > footnote in the docs and the default GUC setting was defaulted to
> > 'false'.
>
>  Why?   What harm is inheritance doing where it is?   Per Elein, Joe and
> Chris, people *are* using it.

I'm not advocating removing the feature (I just asked), but if real
table partitioning was included, would they still use it?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)


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