Re: Danish database patent

Hans Schou wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I hope this is the right list to write to.
>
> A danish company just got a patent which we at SSLUG www.sslug.dk do not
> think is a new invention.
>
> I want to get in contact with somebody who can confirm that this patent is
> not new and has been in PostgreSQL before the patent was taken.
>
> If we can prove that this patent was not new when requested, we plan to
> start a trial against the company or Patent Office to get the patent
> redrawn.
>
> It is a bit troublesome to get all the documents.
> You can find a tar-ball here:
> http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/targit.tgz
> There is four pages which is interesting:
> http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/targit/bns01.pdf
> http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/targit/bns31.pdf
> http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/targit/bns32.pdf
> http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/targit/bns33.pdf
>

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.

So there is not much hope that postgres has done it before, as 99% of
postgres
is concerned with backend activities.

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Hannu