Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>
>>Strangely a pgsql to oracle exporter is a good thing. It'd be a great
>>feature of PostgreSQL. Imagine how many people would start on
>>PostgreSQL if they KNEW that one day they could easily move to Oracle if
>>they needed to. Risk management.
>
>
> Problem is: to offer such a thing with a straight face, we'd have to
> confine ourselves to an Oracle-subset version of SQL. For instance,
> lose the ability to distinguish empty-string from NULL.

Oh please PLEASE *PLEASE* don't bend that way. Oracle has some SQL non
compliant flaws at least one is serious: The inability to distinguish
between the absence of value and an explicitly empty string is just ONE
of Oracle's ridiculous fubarness. People who know what a NULL really is
and use it properly have to program around Oracle's stupidity to "dumb
it down" for the weak application developer, let's not do that.

Terry

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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