On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 03:36:26PM -0400, Robert James wrote:
> Can anyone
> recommend any papers or web pages which provide some good theoretical
> background for aggregate functions?

My knowledge of relational algebra is somewhat non-existent as well;
I tend to just think of them as a "fold" from normal functional
programming.  The Wikipedia page is a reasonable description:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)

Not sure how helpful that is though!

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

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