Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Anthony W. Youngman
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In response to Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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In article <3F7F8E1A.474@ix.netcom.com>, Lee Fesperman
<firstsql@ix.netcom.com> writes
>If you don't care for mathematical principles, there's always ad-hoc database 
>models. 
>Check out Pick, OO and XML databases. They're interested in what works and 
>ignore 
>elegance and mathematical principles.

Mathematical principles? You mean like Euclidean Geometry and Newtonian
Mechanics? They're perfectly solid, good, mathematically correct. Shame
they don't actually WORK all the time in the real world.

That's what I feel about relational, too ...

Cheers,
Wol
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