Re: Storing Perl objects

SPOPS, too
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:36:45PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Kynn,
>
> > I understand that PostgreSQL has OO capabilities.
>
> Nope! Bzzzzzzzz. Thank you for playing. ;-)
>
> We are Object-Relational, not Object Oriented. Object-Relational has to do
> with our custom data types, operators, aggregates, and table inheritance. It
> is not OO, or even really analogous.
>
> > Is it possible to
> > store full-blown Perl objects in a PostgreSQL table? (I suppose that
> > one can always serialize Perl objects and store the serialized text,
> > but this is hardly OO.)
>
> I suggest using Alzabo. Look it up on Freshmeat.
>
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> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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