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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
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In response to Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page  (Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>)
Responses Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 10:49:16PM +0100, Vik Fearing wrote:
> 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 "object" part is out of date and no longer much of a focal point.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.

"extensible relational database" works for me.

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