Sounds like a great idea to me. I for one like SQLite just the way it is, warts and all. It serves my purposes for a small, fast, efficient, flexible, and etc. Database. If it starts "bloating up" to meet such esoteric purposes as the "third manifesto", I will once again have to restart my search for a small, light, and etc. database to replace SQLite. I was strictly looking for those attributes when I found SQLite.
I am not against continued development and enhancement when those endeavors serve to enhance the small, light, fast, and etc. virtues of SQLite. Things like improved "ALTER" and other missing SQL standards are the things I'm looking forward to. I just looked. Can't find the book. I do remember reading Date many years ago. I kept nodding off, so don't' know if ever read the third manifesto or not. Didn't seem to ruin my career in regards to application of relational database technology. Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:03 AM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: Re: [sqlite] updating SQLite to implement The Third Manifesto > > > You can model NULL with the creation of a few more tables > listing the rows in which information is absent. But why should > you create more work for yourself? People find SQL to be useful in > its present form - NULLs and all. It is a fairly standard and well > known thing. > > If some people wish to pursue writing The Third Manifesto or some > other SQL-derivative work, they should consider making a new > SourceForge project of it (or whatever). Debating its merits here > is offtopic to SQLite. > > > I think you've missed the concept of NULL. You seem to be > thinking of > > the NULL pointer as used in most programming languages. They use a > > constant to indicate an empty pointer and call it NULL. A > NULL is NOT a > > specific value, it's the absence of value or information. Since you > > don't know what a particular NULL is, it can be anything. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
