Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

On 1 Aug 2002, Greg Copeland wrote:

> For some reason,
> many of the developers are under the impression that even if code is
> never touched, it has a very high level of effort to keep it in the code
> base. That is, of course, completely untrue.

Where does this "of course" come from? I've been programming for quite a
while now, and in my experience every line of code costs you something
to maintain. As long as there's any interaction with other parts of
the system, you have to test it regularly, even if you don't need to
directly change it.

That said, if you've been doing regular work on postgres code base and you
say that it's cheap to maintain, I'll accept that.

> > Then explain why SQL99 has included inheritance ?
>
> Yes please. I'm very interested in hearing a rebuttal to this one.

Because SQL99 is non-relational in many ways, so I guess they
figured making it non-relational in one more way can't hurt.

I mean come on, this is a language which started out not even
relationally complete!

cjs
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