X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC5DD1B398 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:03:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68787-01 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:03:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A27DDD1B385 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:03:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 13031 invoked by uid 65534); 23 Jul 2004 07:03:31 -0000 Received: from dsl-213-023-255-213.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (213.23.255.213) by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2004 09:03:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: Tom Lane , Robert Treat Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:03:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Joe Conway , elein , David Fetter , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <20040722222104.GU7751@fetter.org> <200407222240.45890.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <15070.1090552467@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <15070.1090552467@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407230903.30389.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200407/22 X-Sequence-Number: 2430 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat 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/