Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> 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?

You need to create a new view for the "child" table, yeah. But you had to
create a child table anyway. But all the previously existing code you had
continues to work unchanged.

cjs
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