[elephant-devel] Accessing persistant instances

[Stefan Scholl]

On 2005-02-03 12:24:05, Ben wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Stefan Scholl wrote:
> >E.g.: I have a class with 3 slots small1, small2, and big. Now I
> >iterate over one complete btree with map-btree and just print
> >small1  and  small2. Will slot  big  be read anyway?
>
> slot big will not be read unless you access it.
> 
> hope this answers your question.

Yes, it does. Thank you!

One of Daniel Barlow's points against OO interfaces for RDBMS was
that all columns get selected when you "get" an object:
http://ww.telent.net/diary/2003/6/#21.51860

And this point is valid for any other kind of DB. Nice to see
that Elephant gets this right.


Regards,
Stefan