On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Could you point me to some pure relational languages ?
> Preferrably not pure academic at the same time ;)
The QUEL and PostQUEL languages used in Ingres and the old Postgres were
rather more "relational" than SQL.
> BTW, what other parts of SQL do you consider non-relational (and thus
> candidates for dropping) ?
I have nothing particular in mind right now. Also, note that merely
being non-relational does not make a language element a candidate
for dropping. If lots of other databases implement a feature, it
would be silly to destroy compatability for the sake of theory.
cjs
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