Re: [HACKERS] Mapping Oracle types to PostgreSQL types

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Justin Clift wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > Jorg Janke (the "main" Compiere person) and I had a brief dicussion last
> > > year.
> > >
> > > Pretty much he asked if PostgreSQL (either the company and/or the
> > > community) would be interested in _making PostgreSQL compatible with
> > > Compiere_ or if not, then how about we and _make and maintain_ a fork of
> > > PostgreSQL that did the right kind of transaction support to work
> > > Compiere. The return for doing that would have been for PostgreSQL to
> > > the be Compiere "default" (recommended) database.
> >
> > It is hard to understand that if he is willing to make PostgreSQL the
> > default for Compiere, why he would refuse to include any changes to
> > allow Oracle and PostgreSQL to both work.
>
> But if what he wants is nested transactions, then I could see him paying
> for development providing better ROI than forking the code. Is that what
> was meant by "the right kind of transaction support" ?

Oh, that makes complete sense. You can't really code around the lack of
nested transactions, at least not cleanly. Let's get nested
transactions and go back to them.

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