| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: LinuxTag wrapup |
| Date: | 2004-07-06 20:01:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20040706165941.U71486@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> An external tool helping translating sql is fine, but nothing to be
> defined todo for core pgsql IMHO. I still believe some minor "oracle
> helper" behaviour (not to call it oracle compatibility, to avoid wrong
> expectations) should be added. Currently, pgsql appears a bit arrogant
> towards those oracle centric people (always a matter of point of view,
> of course). We could avoid this by offering some concessions.
Actually, we had added awhile back a set of 'Oracle compability' stuff to
the backend, to handle some of the non-standard functions that Oracle
users had access to ... is there a reason why that can't be extended? Or
are we talking about *really* core changes here?
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