Re: plug-n-play MS SQL Server replacement

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plug-n-play MS SQL Server replacement
Date: 2004-02-21 02:33:35
Message-ID: 4036C37F.30107@commandprompt.com
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Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:52, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>>Chris,
>>
>>
>>>Most conspicuously, MySQL is most likely an imitator of Sybase
>>>(progenitor of the code that Microsoft sells) in having
>>>"autoincrementing columns" as compared to PostgreSQL's notion of
>>>"sequence objects."
>>
>>Nope. AUTO_INCREMENT is in the SQL 99 spec. It's actually well-supported
>>in the industry. Eventually we'll probably come up with a command to
>>emulate it using sequences so that we can have the SQL-compliance points.
>
>
> Are you sure about that? A search for AUTO_INCREMENT doesn't give me
> anything.
>

http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#mix-identity ?

> The DB2 style sequence GENERATORs are a part of the 2002 draft.
>
>
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