Re: inline out-of-line

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1077050003.211294_at_yasure>...
> Vu Pham wrote:
>
> > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> > news:1077040345.937452_at_yasure...
> >
> >>Vu Pham wrote:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>>Could you please tell me a little bit more about this ? I can't find the
> >>>relationship between tablespace and constraints. ( You can see that I am
> >>>just a rookie in this field ).
> >>
> >>ALTER TABLE mytable
> >>ADD CONSTRAINT pk_mytable
> >>PRIMARY KEY (pk_column)
> >>USING INDEX
> >>PCTFREE 5
> >>TABLESPACE tspace06;
> >>
> >>same "USING INDEX ... " syntax for unique constraint.
> >
> >
> > Aah, I think I see your point now .
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >>I can think of no advantage to inline constraints unless one is
> >>lazy and doesn't specify the full syntax required or doesn't put
> >>constraints on all possible fields which is the recommended
> >>practice.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the advice. I have the feeling that you are also a serious C
> > developer :-)
> >
> > Vu
>
> Actually my C starts and stops with Hello World. Took one course.
> Hated it. I think it is the dumbest language ever devised. Now Pascal
> ... that's a decent language. If Borland had chosen C and Microsoft
> Pascal we'd likely all be happier. No my background was Fortran and
> Cobol.

C is decent for writing operating systems. It's only dumb when globally taught to all CS students as the language for all purposes including application programming.

Of course, there are better languages for writing operating systems, but C has the first-to-market advantage of portability and wide usage.

Hmmm. Did Bill or Larry wind up with BLISS? Or PUBLIC?

jg

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