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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-24T02:37:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> So I've never gotten the distinction -- what makes postgreSQL an
> object oriented database...

It is not. It is object-relational, which is relational with some object-oriented
features. The type/function extensibility is the most visible of these features.

> and what makes it relational?  the fact that it can do joins?

And allows one to use other aspects of relational algebra.

                                                 - Tom