Re: argtype_inherit() is dead code

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
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 01:38:56
Message-ID: 42630FB0.2040209@familyhealth.com.au
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>>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.

I get regularly bitten by the former, and have been bitten by the latter
:) Don't worry, I think your work is invaluable!

They are subtle problems for people to notice, so they're not as prevalent.

Chris

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