Re: argtype_inherit() is dead code

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: argtype_inherit() is dead code
Date: 2005-04-18 22:56:34
Message-ID: 200504182256.j3IMuY204258@candle.pha.pa.us
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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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