The POSTGRES Data Model

Abstract

This paper describes the data model for POSTGRES, a next-generation extensible database management system being developed at the University of California StR86. The data model is a relational model that has been extended with abstract data types, data of type procedure, and attribute and procedure inheritance. These mechanisms can be used to simulate a wide variety of semantic and object-oriented data modeling constructs including aggregation and generalization, complex objects with shared subobjects, and attributes that reference tuples in other relations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 06, 1987
Accession Number
ADA184251

Entities

People

  • Lawrence A. Rowe
  • Michael R. Stonebraker

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Modeling
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Language
  • Models
  • Programming Languages
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Structured Programming

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  • Computer science

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  • Database Systems and Applications