| From: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "'Malcontent null'" <malcontent(at)msgto(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | RE: Why Not MySQL? |
| Date: | 2000-05-03 11:45:32 |
| Message-ID: | 215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA8210304637F@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se |
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> If I may.
> MS Access for all of it's damnable faults is the single most
> popular database in the world. There are a whole slew of
> people who do nothing except access programming and make very
> good money at it. Postgres is a great candidate as a possible
> back end database engine for access. This is a big possible
> application for postgres. To be usable for this purpose
> however it needs a few things.
> 1) Longer object names (I guess this is possible via a DEFINE)
> 2) Case insensitive queries.
> 3) Outer joins (coming soon!).
> 4) Maybe ADO drivers for the VB users of the world.
Should be no major need for a separate ADO driver for Pg. You can use ADO
going through the ODBC driver, which already exists.
//Magnus
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