| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Chris Travers <chris(at)verkiel(dot)metatrontech(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-19 05:35:25 |
| Message-ID: | 17988.1129700125@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Strangely a pgsql to oracle exporter is a good thing. It'd be a great
> feature of PostgreSQL. Imagine how many people would start on
> PostgreSQL if they KNEW that one day they could easily move to Oracle if
> they needed to. Risk management.
Problem is: to offer such a thing with a straight face, we'd have to
confine ourselves to an Oracle-subset version of SQL. For instance,
lose the ability to distinguish empty-string from NULL.
regards, tom lane
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