Implementation of data abstraction in the relational database system INGRES

  • Authors:
  • James Ong;Dennis Fogg;Michael Stonebraker

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey;University of California, Berkeley, California;University of California, Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

This paper discusses the design and implementation of an abstract data type (ADT) facility which was added to the INGRES database manager. Our implementation of ADTs allows a user to register ADTs and ADT operators with the run-time database manager, declare column values of relations to be instances of ADTs, and formulate queries containing references to ADTs and ADT operators. The user view, implementation, performance, and possible extensions to this new facility are described.