Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:34:13 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, elein <elein@varlena.com>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:31:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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
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