From: | Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg(at)cranel(dot)com> |
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To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Compare rows |
Date: | 2003-10-09 12:50:07 |
Message-ID: | 3F85597F.2090504@cranel.com |
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Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Wow, that takes me back to a paper I have been looking for for
> _years_.
>
> Some time in the late '80s, probably '88 or '89, there was a paper
> presented in Communications of the ACM that proposed using this sort
> of "hypernormalized" schema as a way of having _really_ narrow schemas
> that would be exceedingly expressive. They illustrated an example of
> an address table that could hold full addresses with a schema with
> only about half a dozen columns, the idea being that you'd have
> several rows linked together.
I'd be interested in the title / author when you remember.
I'm kinda sick. I like reading on most computer theory,
designs, algorithms, database implementations, etc. Usually
how I get into trouble too with 642 column tables though. :)
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