Re: [HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-27 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:13:26AM +0530, Nishkala wrote: I am a student doing my graduation in India. I want to know what are the other OODBMS features ( other than inheritance ) available in PostGreSQL. It would be great if you can help me out with some information regarding this.

Re: [HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-27 Thread Josh Berkus
Karel, OO in PostgreSQL means that you can create own operators, datetypes, functions... Last I checked, all of these things were part of the SQL spec. I believe our only OO functionality is inheritance ... which I have yet to find a use for. Of course, I agree with Fabian Pascal,

Re: [HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Clark
Last I checked, all of these things were part of the SQL spec. I believe our only OO functionality is inheritance ... which I have yet to find a use for. Well, it's lower maintenance than the 14-clause SELECT...UNION...UNION... I'd have to write for ``correct'' code, in my current

Re: [HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-27 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 03:21, Josh Berkus wrote: Karel, OO in PostgreSQL means that you can create own operators, datetypes, functions... Last I checked, all of these things were part of the SQL spec. I believe our only OO functionality is inheritance ... Actually _single_

Re: [HACKERS] Object Oriented Features

2002-06-27 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
OO in PostgreSQL means that you can create own operators, datetypes, functions... Last I checked, all of these things were part of the SQL spec. I believe our only OO functionality is inheritance ... which I have yet to find a use for. Can you tell me what the SQL99 spec says