Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

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

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

To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-08T14:40:20Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> BTW, can someone explain the model for inherited tables here? Is
> it really just as described _The Third Manifesto_, trivial syntactic
> sugar over the relational model? Or is it supposed to offer something
> that the relational model doesn't do very simply? (Not to mention
> correctly, in the case of postgres.)

No matter how much you grandstand, we're not getting rid of the
inheritance support.  It's not going to happen.  People are using it.

Chris