Re: argtype_inherit() is dead code

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 06:56:01AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> > From a "people who call me" perspective. I am never asked about
> > inheritance. Most of the people don't even know it is there.
> > The requests I get are:
> 
> Just wondering, does anybody asks you about the excessive locking (and
> deadlocking) on foreign keys?  The business about being able to drop
> users and then find out they were still owners of something?  I guess I
> worry about things too low-level that nobody really cares too much about.

Those are problems you get into after using PostgreSQL heavily and are
different from front-end questions about missing features.

The beauty of PostgreSQL is the low number of those surprises under
heavy load, but as you mentioned above we have a few of them and have to
get them corrected.

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