Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Tom Lane wrote:

>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
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>>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.
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>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.
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Funny how many Oracle DBA's don't seem to be aware of this "feature" ....

Funny how many of those that are seem to think that this is perfectly OK
:-( On the other hand, it is one weakness of Oracle that has not gotten
a major airing in public... It might be worth saving for when the FUD
starts to fly :-)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron technology Consulting