[HACKERS] postgreSQL as deductive DBMS

2005-05-16 Thread Дмитрий Летучий
Hello all, I have some ideas how to increase expressive power of the PostgreSQL query language. It is ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[HACKERS] postgreSQL as deductive DBMS

2005-05-16 Thread Dmitriy Letuchy
Hello all, I have some ideas how to increase expressive power of the PostgreSQL query language. It is not a secret that SQL is very poor to express many important queries, and we have to use means of procedural extensions of SQL to realize them. However this is not good idea to split query

Re: [HACKERS] postgreSQL as deductive DBMS

2005-05-16 Thread Michael Meskes
Having written my thesis about deductive DBS I cannot resist giving my 2 cent. On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:42:24PM +0400, Dmitriy Letuchy wrote: Now some words about what must be done to realize described feature. The simple quickest way but the way without future is to write language

Re: [HACKERS] postgreSQL as deductive DBMS

2005-05-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Dimitry, Thus another alternative to increase expressive power of query language is to develop its declarative (i.e. nonprocedural) part. And here we come to deductive database (DDB) with its logic language Datalog. You may want to look at the work of Rada Chirkova, who has already written a