Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

From: Paul Mason <Paul_member_at_newsguy.com>
Date: 27 May 2004 02:17:22 -0700
Message-ID: <c94bn201n2d_at_drn.newsguy.com>


In article <pan.2004.05.26.15.22.11.47608_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra says...
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>Em Wed, 26 May 2004 06:35:43 -0700, Paul Mason escreveu:
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>> Ingres has user-defined datatypes too
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> But you can't create them in QUEL, can you?
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No but you can't create them in SQL either. You write them in C and link them into the server.

UDTs defined in something more high-level than C would probably be very good thing - but I guess not enough people have asked for them for the change to be implemented. Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 11:17:22 CEST

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