Re: Feedback from LinuxWorld, London

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:19:47PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> - Many current MySQL users would like to adopt PostgreSQL but feel
>>> unable to do so because their application package does not support
>>> PostgreSQL at all/well enough or they feel there are technical issues
>>> with the MySQL to PostgreSQL code (not data) migration.
>>
>> And of course they are right. Porting from MySQL to PostgreSQL is a
>> problem, one which could only be solved by dumbing down PostgreSQL to
>> accept many of MySQL's idiosyncracies, which isn't going to happen.
>
> There are many features that could be implimented in PostgreSQL in a way
> that was both logical and supported MySQL converters, though. The recent
> discussion on one of the lists about adding enum as a type is an
> example. I'm sure there are others.
>
> I think the best way to increase migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL
> would be to find out what the biggest pains are for users attempting to
> migrate and then figure out how we can reduce that pain. In some cases
> these solutions might be adding features to PostgreSQL, but many of them
> might just involve improving existing migration tools.

Couldn't these features be mostly added as a 'MySQL Compatibility add-on'?
For instance, the enum type you list above ... ?

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