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

From Curt Sampson
Subject Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL
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Msg-id Pine.NEB.4.44.0208041540260.12724-100000@angelic.cynic.net
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In response to Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL  (Stephen Deasey <stephen@bollocks.net>)
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On 29 Jul 2002, Stephen Deasey wrote:

> Table inheritance offers data model extensibility.  New (derived) tables
> can be added to the system, and will work with existing code that
> opperates on the base tables, without having to hack up all the code.

And why does this not work with the standard relational mechanism?
(Where a "derived table" would be just another table with a foreign
key pointing back to the base table.)

cjs
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