| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Pierre C <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>, francois(dot)perou(at)free(dot)fr, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2010-03-08 18:07:48 |
| Message-ID: | 4B953CF4.4030508@dunslane.net |
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Robert Haas wrote:
>> You do know that SQL is Turing-complete, right?
>>
>
> That seems largely irrelevant to the problem at hand. It's not
> impossible to do syntactic transformations from one Turing-complete
> langauge to another; if it were, there could be no such thing as a
> compiler.
>
>
>
If we were engaged in an academic exercise this might be interesting.
But we aren't. The fact that one can do something is not an argument for
actually doing it.
cheers
andrew
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