[No cc: please. Especially if you're not commenting on anything I said]
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 13:46, D'Arcy J.M. Cain 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.
>
> I think one of the values of it is that it is something that no one else
> has. It distinguishes us.
Coooool. Let's have the 'automatically phone KFC if developer works more
than 8 hours non-stop' feature, *that* is something nobody else has.
Yes. Cool.
In other words: this is an absolutely bogus argument.
As an implementor I'm always wary of using features nobody else has,
especially in databases. So, if I'd want postgres to have one thing
nobody else has, it would be the most complete standard SQL
implementation - so it would at least be the other products' fault if
I'd have to do any special porting work to/from postgres.
cheers
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