Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

Paul Mason <Paul_member_at_newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<c926ff019lp_at_drn.newsguy.com>...
> In article <pan.2004.05.25.22.25.27.560441_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>, Leandro
> Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra says...
> >
>
> >Perhaps better to stick to Dataphor, which has user-defined
> >types too.
>
> Ingres has user-defined datatypes too. See
> ftp://ftp.ca.com/pub/ingres/docs/Ingres_26/ome.pdf for details

Sadly, Ingres' user defined types are pretty ugly to implement, requiring munging around in C. You also get some scary warnings about your supported-ness (word ??) in release notes etc. They are an opportunity for work now that the source code is available... ;)

• Tony