Re: [GENERAL] subset of attributes

2011-02-15 Thread David Johnston
) David J From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Alpha Beta Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:01 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] subset of attributes Hi, while reading about databases, I didn't under

Re: [GENERAL] subset of attributes

2011-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/15/11 2:01 PM, Alpha Beta wrote: Hi, while reading about databases, I didn't understand what can be subset of attributes, see the following : Let Ri (Xi) be a relation sheme, where Xi is a set of attributes. and if t is a tuple for Ri (Xi) and Y is a subset of Xi, then t[Y] denote th

[GENERAL] subset of attributes

2011-02-15 Thread Alpha Beta
Hi, while reading about databases, I didn't understand what can be subset of attributes, see the following : Let Ri (Xi) be a relation sheme, where Xi is a set of attributes. and if t is a tuple for Ri (Xi) and Y is a subset of Xi, then t[Y] denote the subtuple of t corresponding to Y. does a s