+
+ <title>Object Oriented Class Relations</title>
+
+<para>
+&clsql; provides an Object Oriented Data Definition Language, which
+provides a mapping from &sql; tables to CLOS objects. By default class
+inheritance is handled by including all the columns from parent
+classes into the child class. This means your database schema becomes
+very much denormalized. The class option <symbol>:normalizedp</symbol>
+can be used to disable the default behaviour and have &clsql;
+normalize the database schemas of inherited classes.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+See <link linkend="def-view-class"><function>def-view-class</function></link>
+for more information.
+</para>
+