Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:32:40 GMT
Message-ID: <40b9c638.5174650@news.wanadoo.es>

Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:<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.

Nor a truly relational one. SQL is only a part of the problem.

> > Probably, but programmers hate to read the code of other programmers.
>
> I submit to their own loss...

It is pragmatic.

> and that it quite depends on the
> quality of other programmers' code.

And on many other things. For instance I have never seen a well documented complex open source project.

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

I use a lot of free software, and even some open source, but to study and to modify the code of others is a last resource.

It looks like you are very foreign to programming.

Regards
Alfredo Received on Sun May 30 2004 - 06:32:40 CDT