Em Tue, 25 May 2004 10:54:48 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne escreveu: > Can we grab features from their codebase?
No, and that's what's nice about copyleft. It forbids code hoarding. OTOH, it would be interesting to see some competition. Ingres could encroach in some current or prospective PostgreSQL users, and perhaps force us to get back the *relational* QUEL. That could prepare us better for a relational future, now that there is a proprietary RDBMS (Alphora Dataphor, even if using SQL under covers) and at least one in development (by Alfredo Novoa). -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71 +55 (11) 5686 9607 04.674-000 São Paulo, SP BRASIL http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match