Inheritance (was: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?)

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-30T13:48:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > 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