On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I may be wrong but my feeling is, not to much weirdness in the core > > please :) > > +1 ... we have wasted more than enough man-hours trying to get the magic > "serial" type to play nicely. If I had it to do over, we'd never have > put that in at all. The underlying mechanisms are perfectly good --- > it's the idea that the user shouldn't need to know what they're doing > that causes problems.
This kind of hiding will mostly hit the Leaky Abstraction "pattern" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction ---------------- Hannu -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
