New features in SQL-3 DML

• Built-in ops for complex types

  • e.g. the typical set methods, array indexing, etc.
  • dot notation for tuple types

• Operators for reference types

  • deref(foo)
  • shorthand for deref(foo).bar: foo->bar.

• User-defined methods for ADTs.

• Support for recursive queries

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