| From: | Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org> |
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| To: | SCassidy(at)overlandstorage(dot)com |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-21 05:58:48 |
| Message-ID: | 43588398.9050100@empires.org |
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SCassidy(at)overlandstorage(dot)com wrote:
> A "PostgreSQL to Oracle converter" might be a really big project.
>
> Having ported an application from PostgreSQL (7.3) to Oracle 9i, as I
> recall, my biggest problems were:
>
> - Quoting issues: the original PostgreSQL application quoted
> integer/numeric type, and Oracle will not allow that, so I had to make sure
> only types that had to be quoted, were. (I normally do not quote numbers
> in PostgreSQL, but I inherited the application).
What does the standard say about that? Which types of values in Oracle
need to not be quoted?
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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