Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial

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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