Re: Storing Perl objects - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Storing Perl objects
Date
Msg-id 200402082136.45799.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Storing Perl objects  (<kynn@panix.com>)
Responses Re: Storing Perl objects  (joseph speigle <joe.speigle@jklh.us>)
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Kynn,

> I understand that PostgreSQL has OO capabilities.

Nope!   Bzzzzzzzz.  Thank you for playing.   ;-)

We are Object-Relational, not Object Oriented.   Object-Relational has to do
with our custom data types, operators, aggregates, and table inheritance.  It
is not OO, or even really analogous.

>  Is it possible to
> store full-blown Perl objects in a PostgreSQL table?  (I suppose that
> one can always serialize Perl objects and store the serialized text,
> but this is hardly OO.)

I suggest using Alzabo.   Look it up on Freshmeat.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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