Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] inheritance questions

From: "Maurice Gittens" <mgittens(at)gits(dot)nl>
To: "Olivier Caron" <Olivier(dot)Caron(at)iut-gtr(dot)univ-artois(dot)fr>, "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-questions(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] inheritance questions
Date: 1998-05-07 17:20:36
Message-ID: 005e01bd79dc$74d19460$bbfb4fc1@caleb..gits.nl
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>The inability to do insert seems reasonable, because there
>would not be any safe way of knowing which table in the inheritance
>tree was intended. However, update and delete could be expected to
>work. I suspect that no-one ever asked for the facility!
>
This and similar points have been pointed out by a number of poeple (usually
in general terms) however somehow it seems OO features are of lower priority
for now.

Regards,
Maurice.

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