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by jclevy 4638 days ago
Being a child of, being included in...

You can of course manage all those relations in a relational database but the job is done by you, not by the database.

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but isn't the point of being able to implement any relationship you want rather than having a few particular kinds (child of, included in) "built in" a feature? are you going to extend your database every time someone wants a different kind of relationship?
Yes, but usual relations could be implemented by default and generic relation still be available.

I just want to test this and see if the database can do more and my code less.