From: | "Joel Jacobson" <joel(at)compiler(dot)org> |
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To: | "Vik Fearing" <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Idea: Avoid JOINs by using path expressions to follow FKs |
Date: | 2021-03-29 17:55:49 |
Message-ID: | 7210fae8-9596-4796-a5eb-f42948229ad6@www.fastmail.com |
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, at 16:17, Vik Fearing wrote:
> CREATE TABLE order_details (
> "order" REF(orders),
> product REF(products),
> quantity integer,
> PRIMARY KEY ("order", product)
> );
>
>
> And the query would be:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT order_details."order"->customer->company_name
> FROM order_details
> WHERE order_details.product->product_name = 'Chocolade';
>
>
> Postgres already supports most of that, but not all of it.
Do you know if REF is meant to be a replacement for foreign keys?
Are they a different thing meant to co-exist with foreign keys,
or are they actually foreign keys "under the hood"
or something else entirely?
/Joel
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