Collection Object

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/3/06 1:02 PM, "Philip Mötteli" <philip.moetteli at econophone.ch> wrote:

>> Well, after this discussion may be lets begin from start?  :-)
>> 
>>     Can you give e.g. some simple more specific example?
>>     With NSSet, 2 tables T1 and T2 to be some objects..
> 
> What can I tell more?
> Three tables NSSet, T1 and T2. NSSet has an M:M connection to T1 and
> another to T2. Instead of making this M:M connection, as a separate
> table, we have an attribute in NSSet, which is an array of OIDs.

Wait. 

Here you describe not ABSTRACTION but its implementation.

We already have found at least 3 possible implementation of the same
abstraction: ARRAY, another table, inheritance, ...

> Searching should be
> 1. by looking at the content of this array itself and
> 2. by dereferencing the OIDs and looking at their content.



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