From: | Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Pepersack <RPepersack(at)mdinsurance(dot)state(dot)md(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database? |
Date: | 2009-04-27 14:26:31 |
Message-ID: | 2f4958ff0904270726p6f750018k3b209c716dceeb32@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Robert Pepersack
<RPepersack(at)mdinsurance(dot)state(dot)md(dot)us> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> I have a lot of experience with object-oriented programming and relational
> databases, but I'm new to PostgreSQL.
>
> My agency has a contractor that created a PostgreSQL database that he calls
> "object-oriented". I noticed that the contractor has more than one value in
> a column separated by commas. In the relational world, this obviously
> violates first normal form. When I asked about it, he said that it's
> because PostgreSQL is an "object-oriented database". I'm very skeptical.
>
> Can someone tell me if this guy is right?
Where I am from, it is very wrong approach. But most importantly, is
what is the search key in his queries. If that text field is, and he
uses loads of "LIKE" statements, than yes - he obviously doesn't know
databases well enough to use them properly.
--
GJ
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