Re: RM formalism supporting partial information

On Nov 17, 7:54 pm, Jan Hidders <hidd..._at_gmail.com> wrote:

> As you already noted <=3 essentially represents your approach. You may
> also have noticed that <=1 is Zaniolo's approach. The <=2 represents
> the does-not-apply interpretation of null values. I strongly
> conjecture (i.e. haven't formally verified) that <=1 and <=2 are the
> same and <=3 is different, but ~1, ~2 and ~3 are all the same.

I agree that ~1, ~2 and ~3 will probably all be the same.

However I was thinking that if anything <=2 was the odd man out. In fact, consider the following simple example...

r1 Name

r2 Name

     fred
     bill

Clearly for each tuple t1 in r1, there exists tuple t2 in r2 such that t1 <= t2. Therefore r1 <=1 r2.

NFP[{Name}](r1) = { { (Name,fred) } } is an element of int(r1)

NFP[{Name}](r2) = { { (Name,fred) }, { (Name,bill) } } is an element of int(r2).

int(r1) is not a subset of int(r2), so it is not true that r1 <=2 r2

However r1 <=3 r2 is true. Received on Sat Nov 17 2007 - 13:30:59 CET