Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more chosen

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
Cc: Daniel Lyons <fusion(at)nmt(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more chosen
Date: 2002-08-12 05:31:40
Message-ID: 3D57483C.1030208@pacifier.com
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Curt Sampson wrote:

> The problem is, table inheritance is just syntatic sugar for creating
> separate tables, and a view that does a UNION SELECT on them all
> together, projecting only the common columns.

I've been wanting to point out that SQL views are really, when
scrutinized, "just syntactic sugar" ...

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Don Baccus
Portland, OR
http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org

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