"Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:38:01PM +0300, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
>> Let me simplify it in lamer terms.
>> Basically, you have a cycle in your relations schema. i.e. 
>> rel A: att-x, att-y
>> rel B: att-y, att-z
>> rel C: att-z, att-x
>> 
>> The only way to join these three without loosing a lot of information (aside 
>> from some very weird corner cases which i won't mention here), is to use my 
>> full disjunctions which is probably most certainly the only implementation 
>> of 
>> the operation in existence to calculate the general case (which you can see 
>> above).
>
> FWIW, with this simple description I finally worked out what full
> disjunctions are and why you can't do them (efficiently) in SQL.
I'm still lost. I can see how it would be hard to join these together but I'm
not sure what result I would be after.


-- 
  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com


---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Reply via email to