Re: Support for persistant objects in PostgreSQL?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Support for persistant objects in PostgreSQL?
Date: 2004-08-02 17:42:04
Message-ID: 200408021042.04167.josh@agliodbs.com
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Merlin,

> Just curious: why not?

Because it's non-atomic data, which violates normalization and makes
maintenance and data cleaning a royal pain. Also, you'd still need to write
your own operators to be able to do comparisons.

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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