Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:14:23 GMT
Message-ID: <39nFh.1181548$R63.178803@pd7urf1no>

Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> On 2007-02-28, paul c wrote:
>

>> 2) When inserting a TIF image of one person or a JPG of the same 
>> person, is there a way an engine could consider the TIF and JPG equal?

> ...
> That means the end user never wants to use an equality predicate in a
> query, because even a query aiming at a single answer (conventionally
> "select x from y where y.attribute=known_value") would most likely
> search on a probabilistic/fuzzy predicate (i.e. "select x from y where
> y.attribute most like known_value). ...

What is probalistic about it? I thought I could convert the same TIFF to a JPEG twice and get the same JPEG both times.

p Received on Wed Feb 28 2007 - 16:14:23 CST