Re: new idea

On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> 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.)

You're parenthesized comments were what I was getting at. :)

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