* Posts by ld

2 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2013

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

ld

GNU Emacs

RMS did ðat ages ago.

Google goes back to the future with SQL F1 database

ld

What I found ridiculous is that when explaining why they do not deem Spanner relational, Google said it does not accept tables without keys. Now, what violates the relational model in SQL is precisely allowing bags, that is, tables without keys, which are not relations. It that is the point, it is precisely what makes Spanner relational!