Re: The tragedy of SQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
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In response to Re: The tragedy of SQL  (Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>)
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On 9/16/21 3:21 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> On 17/09/21 04:26, Michael Nolan wrote:
>> In the same 1971 seminar where we studied Algol-68, we had to read and 
>> write a short paper on the 1970 Codd paper on relational  theory, which 
>> had only been out for about a year.  The professor running the seminar 
>> noted that Codd proved that the relational model worked, but didn't 
>> guarantee that it worked efficiently enough to be implementable without 
>> immense computer resources, which of course became available.
>> -- 
>> Mike Nolan
>
>
> Developing an effective optimizer might have helped ...

Just a Simple Matter of Engineering... /s

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