Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1A49FB40A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:34:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73858-02 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:34:32 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from mi1.bluebottle.com (mi1.bluebottle.com [206.188.25.14]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF329FB3FF for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:34:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mi1.bluebottle.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2D1YaNv021064 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:34:37 -0700 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=mail; d=bluebottle.com; c=simple; q=dns; h=received:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject: references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mrD3PKz1VzkI+B7m6xFIu+eDMzg0hOk88H0oNEBDK45elk35juH7c8viexZnbi+v0 u942O+Q0YuC8/ey2f1Ac4Rwxu4CkXQQwjnMOTRw+6RxGhl8hmH0g+DmXagL10HB Message-Id: <200703130134.l2D1YaNv021064@mi1.bluebottle.com> Received: from [10.0.0.4] (bas3-kitchener06-1096623463.dsl.bell.ca [65.93.37.103]) (authenticated bits=0) by fe1.bluebottle.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2D1YY1W023898 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:34:36 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:34:29 -0400 From: Greg Toombs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: A form of inheritance with PostgreSQL References: <20070309083514.A5B05605B0F@mx1.hub.org> <20070309163840.66FFB9FBC7D@postgresql.org> <200703130008.l2D08IGK021628@mi1.bluebottle.com> <22201.1173749046@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <22201.1173749046@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Trusted-Delivery: <5b21147b2ad1df99c648d206020f4e1d> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.107 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, BAYES_40, HTML_40_50, HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_HTML_ONLY, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200703/149 X-Sequence-Number: 27787 What disaster do you foresee? Is that version unstable?

Tom Lane wrote:

Greg Toombs <greg.toombs@bluebottle.com> writes:

After reading a few more methods of doing things, I went with the
simplest one, as 1. time is of the essence, and 2. I'm stuck with
PostgreSQL 7.1 on the server I have to develop for.

Egad. *Please* do not tell us you are intending to use 7.1 for production
.... if some PHB is trying to force that on you, I suggest resigning from
the project before you get blamed for the inevitable disaster.

regards, tom lane