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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Support for persistant objects in PostgreSQL?
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Msg-id 200408021042.04167.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Support for persistant objects in PostgreSQL?  ("Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>)
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Merlin,

> Just curious: why not?

Because it's non-atomic data, which violates normalization and makes 
maintenance and data cleaning a royal pain.  Also, you'd still need to write 
your own operators to be able to do comparisons.

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-Josh BerkusAglio Database SolutionsSan Francisco

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