Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:45, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley.  I doubt we would have added it
> > > ourselves.  It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

[Inheritance]

> > How about dropping it, then?
[...]

> Why?  It doesn't hurt you personally!

That's correct.

> Plus, it would annoy a _boatload_ of
> existing inheritance users.

Bruce Momjian:
> It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

That's one reason.

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.
and
> there is nothing whatsoever that table inheritance does that the
> relational model does not handle

That's the other one.

cheers
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