On 11/20/05, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nicolas Barbier wrote: > > > You might want to take a look at the pages that I set up to track the > > progress on my master's thesis: > > > > <url:http://www.nicolas.barbier.easynet.be/itsme/thesis/> > > > > especially the literature page: > > > > <url:http://www.nicolas.barbier.easynet.be/itsme/thesis/literature/> > > > > IMO, GL95, Qua97 and GM99 are the ones that are most applicable to > > view maintenance with bag-semantics (thus, SQL). You should be able to > > find all these papers with Google (Scholar) in case my computer is > > shut down, otherwise you can download them directly from me. > > Thanks, interesting stuff. > > BTW: Does the GL95 algorithm handle outer joins?
No, but GM99 does (although only in the cases where it can be applied). I guess that a slightly adapted version of the technique from Qua97 can also be used. Investigating :-). greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly