Re: PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database?

From: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
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 14:42:12
Message-ID: 396486430904270742t47fb8791xf62475eaeab848f2@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Robert Pepersack
<RPepersack(at)mdinsurance(dot)state(dot)md(dot)us> wrote:

> My agency has a contractor that created a PostgreSQL database that he calls
> "object-oriented".

I might be incorrect in my thinking about what makes PostgreSQL
"Object-Relational", but my understanding is that table inheritance is
the feature that behind this claim.

Basically its horizontal table partitioning with a few nice features added.

> When I asked about it, he said that it's because PostgreSQL is an "object-oriented database". I'm very skeptical.

I would be skeptical too. You can't point the finger at PostgreSQL
for a person's good or bad choice in schema design.
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