Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We inherited inheritance from Berkeley.  I doubt we would have added it
> ourselves.  It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

How about dropping it, then?

Just start to emit 

WARNING: inheritance will be dropped with postgres 8.0 
WARNING: please refer to http://.../ for an explanation why.

right now on every CREATE TABLE that uses it.

cheers
-- vbi

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