Re: Is Pgsql an OORDBMS?

 What is ORDBMS alone?OO for Object Oriented.
little bit confused.  Can u tell me what are the traits off?
thanks,
Larry.   



On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:33:39    The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>PostgreSQL is label'd an ORDBMS (not OO), which tends to mean that it
>carries some traits of, but is not fully, OO ...
>
>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) ...
>
>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 ...
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Larry ganga giri wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   I have doubts reg architecture of Pgsql.
>> 
>>   Is an OORDBMS?or mere RDBMS?
>> 
>>   Can anybody compare with MySQL?
>> 
>>   need details urgently.
>> 
>> Advanced thanx,
>> Larry.
>> 
>> 
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