Re: Notions of Type
From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:20:16 GMT
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:20:16 GMT
Message-ID: <4giFg.15659$X77.13677_at_trndny08>
"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message
news:sj7Fg.426224$IK3.379801_at_pd7tw1no...
> Earlier, Bob B said about the "set of attributes": "It is a relation of
> degree 1 and cardinality N representing a set of N attribute names".
> Maybe you are right and saying that isn't necessary, but his stance
> seems to me to obviate the question.
>
> (I don't know if it matters that if his approach is right, projection
> wouldn't depend on whatever the name of the single attribute is - I
> presume that it would have the same name and type as all headers in the
> db, eg., just another axiom in the form of the catalog.)
is something we can look at in terms of closure. Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 14:20:16 CEST