Re: [HACKERS] Mapping Oracle types to PostgreSQL

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" ?