Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ghatpande(at)vsnl(dot)net, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: First step towards Intelligent, integrateddatabase
Date: 2010-12-02 02:38:08
Message-ID: 4CF70690.6050703@agliodbs.com
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> Something that did what Pavel mentioned:
>
> SELECT name, parent->name FROM children;
>
> would be very useful. It means you no longer have to write explicit joins (or perhaps more accurately, you no longer have to specify exactly how to join the two tables).

Already exists:
http://htsql.org/

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