[tmql-wg] Proposed new requirement: Database implementation

[Kal Ahmed]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>As part of an effort to update the old TMQL requirements document[1] I
>will be starting a series of threads dedicated to new requirements as
>well as changes to the existing ones. This is the first in that series.
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>Proposed new requirement:
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>  - "It should be possible to implement TMQL efficiently on top of
>    existing database systems. In particular, it should be possible to
>    compile TMQL queries to equivalent SQL queries where SQL has the
>    necessary functionality to do so."
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>Comments, anyone?
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It seems to me that this is more an implementation requirement than a 
requirement of the language itself. Why choose SQL in particular ? Why 
not OQL ? Why not XQuery ? Why not MyQueryLanguage ?

The TMQL working group should be experienced and adult enough to realise 
that they need to create something that is implementable - I don't think 
that we should pile on them requirements that they write our SQL queries 
for us too ;-)

Cheers,

Kal

>[1] <URL: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0249.htm >
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