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From: hidders@hcoss.uia.ac.be (Jan Hidders)
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Subject: Re: Requirements for update languages?
Date: 12 Nov 2002 18:26:00 +0100
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In article <e9d83568.0211120512.2b06ec2f@posting.google.com>,
Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen@atbusiness.com> wrote:
>> Hands up who thinks bags are a good idea.
>
>One interesting consequense of bags is that the cartesian product cannot be
>defined.

Be careful how you represent Date's words, because what you are saying here
is very false while what Date actually claims, "the CP of bags is not
well-defined in the SQL standard", is absolutely true.

-- Jan Hidders