Question: Michael Stonebreaker. "Inclusion of New Types in Relational Data Base Systems?' Proc. 2nd International Conference on Data Base Engineering, Los Angeles, Calif. (February 1986). Describes the implementation of a set of extensions to the INGRES prototype to support:
- The definition of new data types
- The definition of operators for such data types
- The definition of new storage structures and access methods for such data types
- The optimization of expressions involving such data types and operators