Maurice:
> IMO the current semantics for inheritance in Postgresql are broken.
It seems that way.
> I've been wanting to do something about it but I got distracted and started
> to debug some other problems in the system.
>
> I hope to get back to this some time.
>
> I personally feel that we have to make some choices:
>
> Is postgresql going to be an Object Relational dbms or is it going to
> be yet another relation dbms?
>
> When the developers make an explicite choice on this point it will be a
> Good Thing (tm).
Agreed. There are lots of pretty decent relation dbms's out there. There are
very few Object Relational dbms's. I happen to think ORDBMS is a really cool
idea and have seen some great applications done with it that a straight
up RDBMS just couldn't do. So my vote is for ORDBMS.
That said, postgresql needs to become a much better RDBMS that it currently
is.
-dg
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