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 A2518D1B366 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:25:53 -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 15276-02 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:25:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cookie.varlena.com (adsl-64-142-36-103.sonic.net [64.142.36.103]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3678ED1B2BD for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:25:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: by cookie.varlena.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id E1731394BA; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:25:56 -0700 From: elein To: David Fetter Cc: Tom Lane , Peter Eisentraut , Robert Treat , Joe Conway , elein , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial Message-ID: <20040723132556.H29889@cookie.varlena.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Fetter , Tom Lane , Peter Eisentraut , Robert Treat , Joe Conway , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <20040722222104.GU7751@fetter.org> <200407222240.45890.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <15070.1090552467@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200407230903.30389.peter_e@gmx.net> <20040723185146.GV7751@fetter.org> <27387.1090611107@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20040723193413.GW7751@fetter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040723193413.GW7751@fetter.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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: 200407/37 X-Sequence-Number: 2445 Perhaps after OSCON I can work with fetter on getting the documentation clarified. OK? --elein On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:34:13PM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:31:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > David Fetter writes: > > > What *is* broken is table inheritance, and the docs need to reflect > > > this. > > > > The combination of inheritance with certain other features is broken, > > yes, and the docs do reflect that (see the bottom of > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/ddl-inherit.html > > for example). > > > > I will grant you that this page is a near duplicate of the > > tutorial's discussion of inheritance, which is surely bad --- either > > they should be exact duplicates, or one or the other needs > > rewriting. But I'm not really going to hold still for the docs on > > inheritance being rewritten by someone who considers the entire > > concept broken. Maybe we can get elein to do it ;-) > > I don't consider the concept broken. The implementation is, in fact, > broken, and putting that broken piece in the tutorial is, imnsho, a > bad mistake. > > Cheers, > D > -- > David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/ > phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 > > Remember to vote! > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster