Re: PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database?
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In response to PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database?  ("Robert Pepersack" <RPepersack@mdinsurance.state.md.us>)
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Robert Pepersack
<RPepersack@mdinsurance.state.md.us> wrote:

> My agency has a contractor that created a PostgreSQL database that he calls
> "object-oriented".

I might be incorrect in my thinking about what makes PostgreSQL
"Object-Relational", but my understanding is that table inheritance is
the feature that behind this claim.

Basically its horizontal table partitioning with a few nice features added.


> When I asked about it, he said that it's because PostgreSQL is an "object-oriented database".  I'm very skeptical.

I would be skeptical too.  You can't point the finger at PostgreSQL
for a person's good or bad choice in schema design.
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