| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL? |
| Date: | 2002-08-02 11:34:21 |
| Message-ID: | 1028288061.14586.46.camel@taru.tm.ee |
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On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:15, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > Is _The Third Manifesto_ available online ?
>
> No. It's a book, and not a terribly small one, either.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201709287/
>
> > Could you brief me why do they discourage a syntactical frontent to a
> > feature that is trivially implemented ?
>
> What's the point of adding it? It's just one more thing to learn.
You don't have to learn it if you don't want to. But once you do, you
have a higher level way of expressing a whole class of models.
Your argument can as well be used against VIEWs - whats the point of
having them, when they can trivially be implemented using ON XXX DO
INSTEAD rules.
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Hannu
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