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List:       python-db-sig
Subject:    [DB-SIG] Re: [PyGreSQL] Version 3.0 PyGreSQL
From:       tbryan () starship ! python ! net (Tom Bryan)
Date:       2000-05-19 0:48:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0005182040120.7530-100000 () starship ! python ! net
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> e) In a clean-sheet database implementation, columns could contain any
> sort of conceivable CORBA object, thus becoming an object-oriented
> relational database.
>
> No database that I've ever heard of does this, yet. (Oracle might have
> some CORBA stuff, somewhere.) 

Oracle 8i has an ORB *inside* the database.  I'm not sure what its
capabilities are for serving up data straight out of tables, which is what
I think you have in mind.  We're using it to handle Java instances that
live inside the database (Oracle 8i has a JVM inside the DB too that can
run code from .class files that have been loaded into special tables).

Perhaps they're headed to a CORBA-ish interface.

---Tom




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