Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-08-02 06:55:57
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.44.0208021553190.7658-100000@angelic.cynic.net
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Isn't inheritance kinda one of those things that is required in order to
> be consider ourselves ORBDMS, which we do classify our selves as being?

Well, it depends on what you call an ORDBMS. By the standards of
Date and Darwen in _The Third Manifesto_, table inheritance is not
required and is in fact discouraged as a feature trivially implemented
with views, foreign keys and constraints. (Though that does not
mean that posgresql currently has an implementation of these that
will make it trivial.)

cjs
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