Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Why is this a good thing? It seems like it would accomplish little
> except to defeat the SQL type system entirely.
It simply allows to have the classical ETL problem solved directly in
the database server, in SQL. That's huge.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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