At 02:42 PM 07/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>I proposed an alternative solution in which a base table containing,
>among other stuff, the fields last_update_date and last_update_user
>and the triggers to maintain those fields. Other tables could then
>"extend" the base table, inheriting both the fields and the triggers.

From a practical point of view.

The need for maintaining multiple triggers in the first place could be
alleviated by allowing triggers in domains. More often then not the reason
you are writing the same trigger over and over again is not because the
tables are almost the same it's because they contain the same field.

I am not trying to say there is no reason for inheritance only that
allowing domain definitions to have triggers could very simply solve the
problem for a majority of users.
:wq
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