Re: two slots, for a view-class' slot-definition type

>>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:59:10 -0800, Sean Champ <[email protected]> said:

  Sean> My first question: Do those two slots need to be seperate and distinct? 

In general the answer is "yes" because there is no precise mapping between SQL
types and CL types.  For example, there is no easy CL way to represent
VARCHAR(n) in CL because the type (STRING n) means strings is exactly length n
rather than at most length n.

I think it might have been an unfortunate design choice for Common SQL to use
the :TYPE slot option to specify the db-type.

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