Re: Another motivational example for inverse view

"Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuikanu_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1163554254.753687.167440_at_f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

> Consider
>
> table PolarCoordinates (
> theta real,
> R real,
> )
>
> with constraints R>0, 0<=theta<pi
>
> view CartesianCoordinates
> select R*cos(theta) AS x, R*sin(theta) AS y
> from PolarCoordinates
>
> This view is clearly updateable, all we need to do is to apply inverse
> mapping to the any tuple inserted/updated/deleted.
>
> We can even write inverse view explicitly:
>
> view PolarCoordinates
> select sqrt(x*x+y*y) AS R, arcsin(y/sqrt(x*x+y*y)) as theta
> from PolarCoordinates

A real type system would make this a piece of cake. Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 22:09:26 CET