Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Vik Fearing
Subject Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
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Msg-id 286d0148-0fd0-49ff-ae85-d0628674f63f@postgresfriends.org
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In response to Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 12/26/23 22:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:10:47PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>> It may be better to just say "relational".
> 
>> I guess if I had to name this with no precedence, I would call it
>> relational/extendable, but that seems even worse that what we have.
> 
> Call it an "extensible relational database"?  I agree that the
> "object" part is out of date and no longer much of a focal point.

Especially considering we hardly implement any of the object features at 
all.  We have table inheritance, and that's about it.
-- 
Vik Fearing




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