Re: [SQL] SQL Spec Compliance Questions

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>
Cc: postgresql advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] SQL Spec Compliance Questions
Date: 2004-06-03 23:09:51
Message-ID: 200406031609.51415.josh@agliodbs.com
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Elein,

> A typed table is an type which happens to be
> a table. They are also known as composite types
> or row types.

Well, Tom was working on this for spec compliance. I don't know if he
completed it.

Of course, it doesn't answer the two corrolary questions:

1) Why would one want a typed table?

2) Aren't typed tables a big violation of relational database design?

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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