Re: Auto-updated fields

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de> writes:
> > I may be wrong but my feeling is, not to much weirdness in the core
> > please :)
> 
> +1 ... we have wasted more than enough man-hours trying to get the magic
> "serial" type to play nicely.  If I had it to do over, we'd never have
> put that in at all.  The underlying mechanisms are perfectly good ---
> it's the idea that the user shouldn't need to know what they're doing
> that causes problems.

This kind of hiding will mostly hit the Leaky Abstraction "pattern"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction

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Hannu