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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: elein <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:03:30 +0200
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <[email protected]> writes:
> > +1/2 (Since I don't like inheritence)
> >
> > IMHO we ought to try to keep the _tutorial_ free of things that are
> > generally considered against relational design.
>
> Where is it written that inheritance is against relational design?

I would venture that it is nowhere written that it is part of relational 
design.  It is, however, unambiguously part of object-relational 
design, if that's what we're aiming for.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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