Re: Re: 7.2 items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@monsterlabs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-13T01:43:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I think we just need someone to start a discussion then generate a patch
to match.

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Here is a small list of big TODO items.  I was wondering which ones
> > people were thinking about for 7.2?
> >
> > * Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary key
> >   [inheritance]
> 
> 
> i was wondering if there was any thought still being given to Oliver 
> Elphick's post from a while back that is still in TODO.detail 
> [inheritance]: 
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/mhonarc/todo.detail/inheritance/msg00010.html
> 
> i kind of feel as though the inheritance semantics for postgres at the 
> moment are not fully fleshed out, and including further features without 
> having a full plan for the semantics doesn't seem to advance the effort 
> of making postgres a true Object-Relational DBMS.
> 
> for my part, as a user, i am excited that inheritance is available even 
> in a limited fashion, but where i use it, i have basically had to invent 
> my own semantics for referential integrity based on a suite of triggers. 
> this issue is addressed in Oliver's post, but i was wondering if such 
> issues were still a part of the development dialogue since Oliver's post 
> was the last in TODO.detail [inheritance] and seemed to merit no 
> response (or any that i could find in the mailing list archives).
> 
> -tfo
> 
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