Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Isn't inheritance kinda one of those things that is required in order to
> be consider ourselves ORBDMS, which we do classify our selves as being?

Well, it depends on what you call an ORDBMS. By the standards of
Date and Darwen in _The Third Manifesto_, table inheritance is not
required and is in fact discouraged as a feature trivially implemented
with views, foreign keys and constraints. (Though that does not
mean that posgresql currently has an implementation of these that
will make it trivial.)

cjs
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