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Ok. Oracle had/has a presumeably similar thing (PL/SQL). I misread his comment to mean, postgres SQL.
by A_Person 8y ago
Ok. Oracle had/has a presumeably similar thing (PL/SQL). I misread his comment to mean, postgres SQL.
- mmjaa 8y agoYes indeed, I meant PROGRESS 4GL, which was sort of around before all the "RDBMS" hoopla congealed all this wonderful info into a single art. Its just that your last paragraph really sounded like a quote, near-verbatim, from the very guides published by PROGRESS just for the purposes of educating people on how to make their data relatable .. but of course that is because these are natural laws for databases.
- A_Person 8y agoI remember when 4GLs were the hot new thing. Let's get into those! Oops, nope, forget that, now it's Data Dictionaries, let's get into those instead! Rinse & repeat ...