Re: postgreSQL as deductive DBMS

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgreSQL as deductive DBMS
Date: 2005-05-16 16:12:39
Message-ID: 200505160912.39650.josh@agliodbs.com
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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
PostgreSQL-parse-tree-to-DataLog converter:
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/selftune/Report_031005.pdf

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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