Re: Why mention to Oracle ?

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:43 AM Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:

>
> My suggestion is: Postgres DOCs are written and have to be read by
> Postgres users, just that. If you are Oracle user, search for a tutorial on
> how to migrate to Postgres or find tools for it, but not in DOCs
>

As Tomas, Tom and others pointed out, it's simply because it is a common
database people
migrate from and ask for help, and people contributed patches to the
documentation out of their
own need, or to help others.

(Several) years ago I wrote a since-deprecated section of the docs to port
from PL/SQL to
PL/pgSQL because it was needed back then.

Because if you write something for Oracle users, SQL Server users can claim
> why there is no "Porting from T-SQL to PL/pgSQL" ?
> And MySQL users can do the same, and so on.
>

And those users are welcome to contribute patches to the docs explaining
why they think
those additions to our docs would be helpful.

> Maybe Oracle was the most common DB which migrated to Postgres, but I'm
> not sure this is true for today.
>

I don't know about you, but in my experience that is absolutely not true. I
deal with lots of people
and companies migrating from Oracle, or whose staff have experience with
Oracle and need
help adapting that knowledge to Postgres.

Roberto