From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: new idea
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:14:46 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:11:57AM -0500, Erik Jones wrote:
>
> I don't really even see the need for inheritance here. This is what
> most ORMs do at the application level already.
Wel, sure, but the poster seemed to think that having a way to
represent this in the database was a good thing. (I'm not actually
convinced even of that. The whole point of SQL was to move away from
the hierarchical model, and so grafting a lot of hierarchy back onto
it suggests to me that the OP has picked the wrong technology for the
problem at the outset.)
A
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