[tmql-wg] Proposed new requirement: Database implementation

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Kal Ahmed
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| It seems to me that this is more an implementation requirement than
| a requirement of the language itself. 

Yes and no. It's really about what to do when faced with a construct
in a potential TMQL that is known to map poorly to existing database
query languages. Should one try to change it to make it fit? Or should
one just ignore the issue altogether. This requirement was meant to
say that we'd try to avoid incompatibilities without saying that we'd
make that a constraint on ourselves.

| Why choose SQL in particular ?  Why not OQL ? Why not XQuery ? Why
| not MyQueryLanguage ?

It says query languages in general, but singles out SQL because it is
the most used query language at the moment.
 
| 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 ;-)

That's pretty much what the requirement is trying to say. :-)

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