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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] inheritance questions

Maurice Gittens <mgittens@gits.nl>

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From: "Maurice Gittens" <mgittens@gits.nl>
To: "Olivier Caron" <Olivier.Caron@iut-gtr.univ-artois.fr>, "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: <pgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-05-07T17:20:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
>The inability to do insert seems reasonable, because there
>would not be any safe way of knowing which table in the inheritance
>tree was intended.  However, update and delete could be expected to
>work.  I suspect that no-one ever asked for the facility!
>
This and similar points have been pointed out by a number of poeple (usually
in general terms) however somehow it seems OO features are of lower priority
for now.

Regards,
    Maurice.