Re: [Fwd: MS SQL compatible functions]

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com>
Cc: Medi Montaseri <medi(at)cybershell(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ian Harding <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, dean(at)tmdt(dot)com(dot)tw
Subject: Re: [Fwd: MS SQL compatible functions]
Date: 2002-02-07 02:32:35
Message-ID: 200202070232.g172WaW28127@candle.pha.pa.us
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Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> I dunno... you could also get the type of people that have built (or
> inherited) a pre-existing application written in Oracle/SQLServer/etc that
> no longer want to pay the license fees and would like to switch to
> PostgreSQL, but aren't looking (or don't have the time right now) to
> convert their entire application... having that abstraction layer makes it
> that much easier for them to make the switch...

Yes. No question about it. Our biggest problem is that it lacks
_excitement_. :-)

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