Re: databases written in ada

[Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>]

Quoth Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
>> The comment is fairly readily understood, as it is commonly known in
>> OS literature by the term "orthogonal persistence."
>>
>> The idea is that you have a set of datatypes which essentially "store
>> themselves."  
>
> And how is this supposed to work if there are multiple users of the
> same database?

I suppose that means that the datatypes have to be able to have some
sort of identity so that you can distinguish between instances that
may be associated with a particular user and those that need to have
'global' scope and would be shared across users.

I didn't say it was going to be _easy_ :-).
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