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jeltztoday at 12:04 PM1 replyview on HN

The main innovation here seems to be compile time checking of that foreign keys are respected but that is a thing that can be added to SQL and there is at least one proposal for doing so. So I do not really see anything fundamentally different from SQL.

https://keyjoin.org/

Full disclosure: I am one of the co-authors of this paper and an associated patch implenting it in PostgreSQL that we have proposed.

I am happy to see more people than us think this is useful.


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JoelJacobsontoday at 3:04 PM

Here is a tl;dr as well: https://keyjoin.org/tldr.html