Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> > 3) Returning of sub-class fields. Any ODBMS *must* do this by
> > definition. If it doesn't, it isn't an ODBMS.
>
> Chris, you have a bad habit of defining away the problem. Not
> everyone is convinced upon this point.
Or to put things another way, my goal is to implement the ODMG
(http://www.odmg.org/) interface on postgresql. Nobody has said
*anything* like that this is a bad goal to aim for, or that there is a
better way of doing it.