| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Jean-Michel POURE <jm(at)poure(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Mapping Oracle types to PostgreSQL types |
| Date: | 2003-10-17 11:40:09 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0310171338060.14902-100000@peter.localdomain |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-advocacy pgsql-hackers |
Jean-Michel POURE writes:
> Is there a way to map Oracle nvarchar2(lenght) to PostgreSQL varchar(lenght)
> in PostgreSQL 7.3? Are there plans to allow such mapping in the future using
> the CREATE DOMAIN syntax?
No to both. Doing this would most likely require making the affected type
names be reserved words in the grammar or sacrifice some other
functionality, which seems a high price to pay for this cosmetic feature.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Robert Treat | 2003-10-17 12:41:52 | Re: MySQL interview, no mention of PostgreSQL |
| Previous Message | Bruce Momjian | 2003-10-17 11:23:07 | Re: MySQL interview, no mention of PostgreSQL |
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Peter Eisentraut | 2003-10-17 12:15:19 | Re: Some more information_schema issues |
| Previous Message | Jean-Michel POURE | 2003-10-17 08:10:26 | Mapping Oracle types to PostgreSQL types |