Re: Requirements for update languages?

Jan Hidders wrote:
>In article <m2k7jo87eh.fsf_at_pcwi1068.uni-muenster.de>,
>Jens Lechtenbörger <lechtej_at_uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>>
>>Basically, the anonymous referees did not buy (2) and (3).
>
>That suprises me a little, because I'm not sure that this is really so
>relevant. I would say that sometimes you want a view that behaves as if it
>is the entire database. If you have a syntactic decidable characterization
>of when exactly that is possible then that is an interesting result.

However, after looking a bit around I found:

  Georg Gottlob, Paolo Paolini, Roberto Zicari: Properties and Update   Semantics of Consistent Views. TODS 13(4): 486-524(1988)

  http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/tods/GottlobPZ88.html

From the abstract (I don't have the SIGMOD CDs here at home) I get the impression that what they did is very similar to your work. Did any of the referees mention this?

• Jan Hidders