Re: Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully
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Msg-id 87k67mb7ad.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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In response to Re: Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully  (Roy Souther <roy@silicontao.com>)
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* Roy Souther:

> In what way could a database like PostgreSQL not be "faithful to
> relational theory"? Does he give any explanation as to what that means?

My guess: In SQL (and in PostgreSQL as a result), relations aren't
sets, aren't first-class, and the underlying logic is not Boolean.

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