Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

From: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:47:42 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.28.12.47.42.4270_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>


Em Fri, 28 May 2004 11:11:06 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:

> I don't know any SQL DBMSs that take advantage on the possible
> optimization when the attributes are not nullable.

        Well, that's the point. Ingres wasn't originally an SQL DBMS.

        Even if probably any advantages deriving of the fact were already obsoleted.

>>	Perhaps.  But then I think you have the cardinal virtue of the
>>programmer, hubris.

>
> Probably, but programmers hate to read the code of other programmers.

        I submit to their own loss... and that it quite depends on the quality of other programmers' code.

        Looks like you are really foreign to all the free software ethos.

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