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Re: FK's to refer to rows in inheritance child

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, YebHavinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "w.p.dijkstra@mgrid.net" <w.p.dijkstra@mgrid.net>
Date: 2010-12-05T14:37:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 12/04/2010 07:12 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to  official topic branches at some point in the future, but I think it's premature to speculate about whether it'd be useful here.

I'd need a lot of convincing if it imposed an extra burden on people 
like Tom. The only way I could see  working is if some committer took 
ownership of the topic branch and guaranteed to keep it pretty much in 
sync with the master branch.

>   What is needed right now is design work, not code.
>

Indeed. In this case I don't think we even have agreement on the 
features let alone how they might work.


cheers

andreew