| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Hans Schou <chlor(at)schou(dot)dk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Danish database patent |
| Date: | 2000-11-11 16:52:02 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20001111085202.016ef100@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 06:35 PM 11/11/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>I took only a brief look at them, so i may be in a state of
>misunderstanding :)
>
>As I understand it, the patent is about generating/composing queries
>_before_
>submitting them to backend, not about query processing in the backend.
Yes, it's a query generation technique separate from the database server,
generating and executing SQL queries on a set of tables in order to satisfy
some goal.
Has nothing to do with the RDBMS itself.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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