From: | Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, thewolery(at)nospam(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk |
Subject: | Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL |
Date: | 2003-10-22 18:37:08 |
Message-ID: | bxyd6cp3yqz.fsf@datafix.cs.berkeley.edu |
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>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> "Relational" is all about theory and proving things
>> mathematically correct. "MV" is all about engineering and
>> getting the result. And if that means pinching all the best
>> ideas we can find from relational, then we're engineers - of
>> course we'll do it :-)
Josh> "Relational" is all about preserving the *long-term*
Josh> integrity, utility, and accessability of your data. "MV" is
Josh> all about getting an expedient result immediately and to
Josh> heck with the future.
To emphasize the *long-term* - relational is all about separating
physical database representation from a logical view of the data.
Josh, I'll be happy to meet at Intermezzo - after Nov 24 perhaps. I
have a conference deadline .. the papers that we write "just to secure
funding" - your tax dollars at work. Long live the NSF !
BTW, I'm not necessarily that far from your views. There is, however,
more to an XML database than just storing data - relational databases
do just fine there. The tools that are used to build database systems
have other uses - for instance XML message brokers.
--
Pip-pip
Sailesh
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh
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