Re: Modeling General Graphs in SQL

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:54:24 GMT
Message-ID: <kQDsf.214234$Gd6.207889_at_pd7tw3no>


Mikito Harakiri wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>

>>>>>... which is
>>>>>widely believed to be inexpresible by standard
>>>>>                                                          SQL.

>
> -------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>> From "Universality of Data Retrieval Languages" by Alfred V. Aho and
>>Jeffrey D. Ullman:
>>
>>"In this appendix. we prove that the transitive closure of a relation
>>cannot be couched as an expression of
>>                                                           relational algebra."

>
> ----------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

Yes.

p Received on Wed Dec 28 2005 - 22:54:24 CET

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