Re: Storing query language in relations

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:51:29 GMT
Message-ID: <5UDn9.50826$PP.57023@rwcrnsc53>

"Paul" <pbrazier_at_cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote in message news:51d64140.0210040220.6ea54b8d_at_posting.google.com...
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> So perhaps the point is more of a conceptual one - that we should move
> away from thinking of a query language as the primary means of
> interacting with the database, and the system tables as only an
> "underlying" storage for DDL.

The way I have thought about this for a while now is that the catalog is the definitive source (and sink) for any schema changes, and any DDL is/should be merely a convenient shorthand for relational operations on the catalog.

Marshall Received on Sat Oct 05 2002 - 10:51:29 CDT