Re: [GENERAL] Allowing SYSDATE to Work

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Matt,
>
> > I now agree completely. My purpose is to migrate Oracle databases to
> > Posgres, and I had thought that Oracle didn't support CURRENT_DATE,
> > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and so on. However, I've just learned otherwise. So,
> > I think the proper migration process for a production database would be
> > to first change the Oracle DB to use CURRENT_DATE (or some other
> > standard psuedo column), since that will work properly under both Oracle
> > and Postgres.
>
> Yep, or use the Orafce project. We're happy to support compatibility syntax
> in completely separate add-in projects. Just not in the core code.

How does Orafce allow for grammar extensions like what would be needed
for SYSDATE to work? (Note no parens)

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