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Re: OO Stuff

Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Chris <chris@bitmead.com>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-19T06:30:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> > 3) Returning of sub-class fields. Any ODBMS *must* do this by
> > definition. If it doesn't, it isn't an ODBMS.
> 
> Chris, you have a bad habit of defining away the problem.  Not
> everyone is convinced upon this point.

Or to put things another way, my goal is to implement the ODMG
(http://www.odmg.org/) interface on postgresql. Nobody has said
*anything* like that this is a bad goal to aim for, or that there is a
better way of doing it.