Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-08-08 14:40:20
Message-ID: 20020808223925.L26578-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> BTW, can someone explain the model for inherited tables here? Is
> it really just as described _The Third Manifesto_, trivial syntactic
> sugar over the relational model? Or is it supposed to offer something
> that the relational model doesn't do very simply? (Not to mention
> correctly, in the case of postgres.)

No matter how much you grandstand, we're not getting rid of the
inheritance support. It's not going to happen. People are using it.

Chris

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