Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-31T03:15:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > You can add children without modifying your code.  It is classic C++
> > inheritance;  parent table accesses work with the new child tables
> > automatically.
> 
> I don't see how my method doesn't do this as well. What code do you have
> to modify in the relational way of doing things that you don't in this
> inheritance way?

Seems like you have to modify your views to handle this, at least in the
example you just posted, right?

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