Re: Feedback from LinuxWorld, London

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feedback from LinuxWorld, London
Date: 2005-10-11 01:52:00
Message-ID: 434B1AC0.2060302@familyhealth.com.au
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>>And of course they are right. Porting from MySQL to PostgreSQL is a
>>problem, one which could only be solved by dumbing down PostgreSQL to
>>accept many of MySQL's idiosyncracies, which isn't going to happen.
>
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> It does make me think that we should try to adopt some more of MySQL's
> idiosyntactics even if we don't fully adopt their idiosyncracies.

Yes, especially since THEY make an effort to support US :)

They now even support SERIAL as a pseudo-type :)

Chris

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