Re: Postgresql, SQL server and Oracle. Please, help

On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Nadia Kunkov wrote:

> Hi, I was wondering where can I get documentation and especially
> examples on PgSQL? I've done a lot of work with Ms SQL server and
> need to rewrite a number of stored procedures in PgSQL. Is there a
> tutorial? What is the best way to start?
> Can I read an Oracle book? How close is Oracle to Postgresql?

Just posted moments ago for a different thread:

On Jan 23, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Duffy House wrote:

> The first issue will be getting up to speed on PL/pgsql. Where can I
> find
> primer on PL/pgsql, with lots of examples? How silimar is PL/pgsql to
> PL/SQL
> under Oracle?

The PostgreSQL documentation is the place to start:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql.html

The PostgreSQL distribution has a file with some examples in it:

src/test/regress/sql/plpgsql.sql

The pgEdit distribution (http://pgedit.com/download) has a fairly
extensive plpgsql example for importing and analyzing web server logs.

I'm not familiar with Oracle, but there is a porting section in the
documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql-porting.html

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL