Re: Is Pgsql an OORDBMS?

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Larry ganga giri wrote:

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> What is ORDBMS alone?OO for Object Oriented.
> little bit confused.
object-relational, perhaps.

Zsolt

> Can u tell me what are the traits off?
> thanks,
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:33:39 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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> >PostgreSQL is label'd an ORDBMS (not OO), which tends to mean that it
> >carries some traits of, but is not fully, OO ...
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> >One of our developers (Chris Bitmead?) has been spending time on improving
> >the OO capabilities, with improvements brought into v7.0 (soon to be
> >released) ...
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> >As for "comparing with MySQL" ... it doesn't. MySQL is essentially a
> >bunch of flat files with an SQL implementation over top of it to access
> >them ... it doesn't support key features required to be construed as a
> >true RDBMS, main one being to me is its complete lack (and disregard) for
> >transactions/rollback ...
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> >On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Larry ganga giri wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> I have doubts reg architecture of Pgsql.
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> >> Is an OORDBMS?or mere RDBMS?
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> >> Can anybody compare with MySQL?
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> >> need details urgently.
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> >> Advanced thanx,
> >> Larry.
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