Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:40:36 -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 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for which
> any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial is liable
> to become quite short.

Are there other pieces that are broken?  As far as I know, the only
documented feature in PostgreSQL that is is table inheritance.

Anyhow, there are lots of ways to highlight the object-relational
features that PostgreSQL provides.  Table inheritance just isn't a
good one.

Cheers,
D
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