| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, hannu(at)tm(dot)ee, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance |
| Date: | 2002-09-20 02:52:15 |
| Message-ID: | 200209200252.g8K2qFv29352@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >> Has anyone given much thought as to perhaps we could just drop multiple
> >> inheritance from Postgres?
>
> > I am for it. Multiple inheritance is more of a mess than a help.
>
> I'm not agin it ... but if that's the lay of the land then we have
> no need to apply a last-minute catalog reformatting to fix a
> multiple-inheritance bug. This patch is off the "must fix for 7.3"
> list, no?
I don't think a few days before beta2 is the time to be making such
decisions. I think we have to keep the course and open the discussion
in 7.4. Sorry.
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