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Re: Happy column adding (was RE: [HACKERS] Happy columndropping)

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-26T00:38:04Z
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At 02:25 AM 1/26/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>multiple inheritance is tricky and _requires_ unique column ids maybe oids
>from pg_attribute to be doable.

Having worked on a C++ compiler (one of the first, actually) I 
suspect that this might be one of the lesser problems associated
with implementing a multiple inheritance scheme :)



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