Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies

mAsterdam wrote:
paul c wrote:
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I think nothing at all should be read into the names.

I think that is an overly structuralist point of view.
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In that case overly structualist means logical and merely structuralist presumably falls short of being logical. I fail to see how an implementation can read anything into the names other than their position in a structure, eg., in some syntax. An implementation presumably expresses the logical theory in play. In Codd's case the theory is FOL plus his extensions, neither of which attach import to choice of names.

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