Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

In article <bcb8c360.0405261216.1b188286_at_posting.google.com>, Tony Douglas says...
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>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...
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>> >Perhaps better to stick to Dataphor, which has user-defined
>> >types too.
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>> Ingres has user-defined datatypes too. See
>> ftp://ftp.ca.com/pub/ingres/docs/Ingres_26/ome.pdf for details
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>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... ;)
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Well all I can say is that anyone who finds the C required for UDTs difficult probably doesn't want to go hacking the Ingres source itself ;)

As for supported-ness, we always offer best efforts and I've never had cause to turn anyone away for using UDTs. They're not used that often though - probably because there is a learning curve to setting them up. Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 11:10:13 CEST