On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance
> > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started
> > to come up with anything.
>
> We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it
> ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.
How about dropping it, then?
Just start to emit
WARNING: inheritance will be dropped with postgres 8.0
WARNING: please refer to http://.../ for an explanation why.
right now on every CREATE TABLE that uses it.
cheers
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