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> I think that having a file format that enables simple means to > achieve simple (but specialized) ends is essential to a good > toolkit. Any SQL implementation refutes that. Nobody touches the SQL data file itself, they all go through a SQL interpreter that accesses the data on their behalf. Specialized ends are implemented on top of this interpreter. Granted, this means we'd need a well-defined way to do pretty much anything through whatever means we provide, but saying "access to the file is required" is just plain wrong. "Access to the data" is a more appropriate requirement, but making the data file tweakable is a weak solution to that - no controls, no validation, etc.
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