Re: postgresql and oracle, compatibility assessment

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Martin Matusiak <db(at)juventuz(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql and oracle, compatibility assessment
Date: 2003-02-18 19:02:56
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0302181606530.1644-100000@peter.localdomain
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Martin Matusiak writes:

> I am doing a project for college developing a java system utilizing a
> RDBMS. The choice is between PostgreSQL and Oracle and I'm wondering
> exactly how impossible would it be to make it compatible with both.

I tried to do something like that recently and the way Oracle handles
many perfectly innocent SQL commands is completely craptacular. Don't try
it, especially with Oracle 8. (9 is better in some regards.)

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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