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Subject: Database Hacking Ideas
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 17:31:34 EST
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From:  Faustus%UCBCory@Berkeley (Wayne A. Christopher)

I have heard about Prolog systems that include facilities to
partition the database and to control the sections that are
searched when satisfying goals. Does anybody know of such systems ?
If not, does anybody have any ideas on who such a thing should
be implemented ?  My idea is to have predicates to create and remove
database "modules", and to specify which ones are to be searched
and which one newly entered clauses are to be inserted. The
advantages I can see from this are more control over evaluation,
and faster searching of very large databases where the program
will be able to tell where the data it wants will be. Does anyone
have any more advantages to this scheme, disadvantages, or other
comments ?

-- Wayne Christopher