Re: godel-like incompleteness of relational model

"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:<FtUqc.49043$TT.45616_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> "Todd B" <toddkennethbenson_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> > > "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote :
> > > >
> > > > And what is the problem with The Relational Model?
> > >
> > > It has a Godel-like incompleteness:
> > >
> http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/relational_model_incomplete.htm
> > >
> >
> > I'm no mathematician, but didn't Godel prove that 'any' formal system
> > is incomplete?
>
> Yes, he did. But I am being specific about provision of one specific
> instance
> in which the incompleness of the RM is comprehendable.

You may consider that the RM is incomplete, but it is NOT a "Godel-like" incompleteness: you are just attaching a fancy-sounding but irrelevant label to your claim. It is like describing any kind of uncertainty as "Heisenberg-like" or any kind of cat as "Schrodinger-like"! Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 15:11:08 CEST