Re: A question for Mr. Celko
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 04:54:34 GMT
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"John Jacob" <jingleheimerschmitt_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
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> > ??? Where did I say that the primitives aren't there?
>
> Sorry, I misread your post. I haven't had much time to devote to
> implementation for this yet, but unless it can be shown that it can't
> be optimized, I'll take the optimistic assumption that it can.
> Obviously there's research to be done in this area. Sounds fun to me.
They said the same thing and had the same optimistic attitude with object-oriented database management systems, and they are *still* having fun after ten years, especially with optimization! It seems there is a lot of fun to be had, -if- you can get someone to keep paying for it...
>
> Regards,
> Bryn
- Dan