| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL/pgSQL 2 |
| Date: | 2014-09-02 04:40:14 |
| Message-ID: | 11821.1409632814@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> If someone came up with a convincing PL/SQL compatibility layer then
> it'd be worth considering adopting - when it was ready. But of course,
> anyone who does the work for that is quite likely to want to sell it to
> cashed-up Oracle users looking to save a few hundred grand on per-CPU
> licensing.
As a case in point, EDB have spent quite a few man-years on their Oracle
compatibility layer; and it's still not a terribly exact match, according
to my colleagues who have looked at it. So that is a tarbaby I don't
personally care to touch ... even ignoring the fact that cutting off
EDB's air supply wouldn't be a good thing for the community to do.
regards, tom lane
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