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Re: OO Patch

Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>

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From: Chris <chris@bitmead.com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-20T00:15:58Z
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Hannu Krosing wrote:

> It may be time to fork the tree into OO and beancounting editions ?
> Especially so if the main tree will migrate to BDB ;-p
> 
> OOPostgreSQL sounds quite nice ;)

I hope we don't have to go there. A better relational engine and a
proper OO engine are completely complementry. That was the whole premise
of the Stonebraker research.

I should also remind people again I guess of my original design proposal
I wrote a few years ago. You can find it here
http://www.tech.com.au/postgres/

These issues have been on my mind ever since Berkeley released R4.2.