Re: OO database?

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OO database?
Date: 2003-12-09 03:08:49
Message-ID: m3wu963cxq.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com
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After a long battle with technology, db(at)traceroute(dot)dk (Socketd), an earthling, wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I can see Postgresql calls itself a "object-relational database
> management system", but what's the object part of it?
>
> I have found inheritance, but are there more OO features in postgresql?

It offers "method dispatch" where the system can invoke different
methods dependent on the types of values passed into a function.
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