Re: Object Oriented Features - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: Object Oriented Features
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Msg-id 3D1D09E9.77E1C605@fourpalms.org
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In response to Object Oriented Features  (Nishkala <nishkala@gdit.iiit.net>)
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> > >  OO in PostgreSQL means that you can create own operators, datetypes,
> > functions...
> > Last I checked, all of these things were part of the SQL spec.   I believe our
> > only "OO" functionality is inheritance ... which I have yet to find a use
> > for.
> Can you tell me what the SQL99 spec says regarding creation of
> operators? I couldn't find them.

I haven't gone back and looked, but I recall that the spec makes some
mention of operators in the context of defining new functions. I don't
think there is anything about defining operators not already in SQL, but
only (if anything at all) about extending existing operators to new data
types.
                  - Thomas




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