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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Subject: Re: SQL Spec Compliance Questions
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:53:04 -0800
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Joe,

> After re-reading it, I think it is related to (or at least similar to)
> the work Tom is currently doing to allow composite types as table
> attributes.

That's what I thought at first as well, and told the requestor that we would 
support them in the next two versions.   But reading that paragraph makes me 
think that the type is somehow supposed to contain metadata or summary data 
for the table itself.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco