Re: About referential integrity.

> Anyway, couldn't it be an extention to postgreSQL ? If you have
> heard about
> Business Objects, you should know that it can do it very well
> provided you
> draw the relationchips between the tables of your database. And
> it's of much
> use, since you just have to concentrate on the fields you want to
> fetch and
> the program takes care of the relations and handles group by,
> order by and
> where clause.

Nope - that's the job of the client program (ie. Business Objects)

> As of PostgreSQL, I don't think it would be a hard thing to put
> on, since the
> relations are stored in a system table, including the fields the
> tables are
> linked by. A sort of syntax :
>
> select *
> from AUTO JOIN t1, t2;

How is this different from:

select *
from t1 NATURAL JOIN t2;

???

Chris