Re: SQL99 - Nested Tables

Darren,

> I was interested as to if there were plans to develop SQL99 nested
> tables. I know with AJAX(tm) starting to grow in popularity that the
> XML features of SQL2003 would prove useful for EnterpriseDB.

I realize that nested tables are in SQL99, but so is SQLJ and a few other 
really dumb ideas.  As Joe Celko (member of the SQL92 committee) put it, "we 
were a committee, and a committee never met a feature it didn't like."

Can you make a use-case for nested tables?   It would need to be a fairly 
strong one, given that they basically violate the relational model.  If what 
you're really interested in is XML data support, then I'd suggest focusing on 
that instead.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco