| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: LinuxTag wrapup |
| Date: | 2004-07-04 00:31:33 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0407041031030.18108@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> > - what about Oracle portability.
>
> > IMHO we should rethink if we could make those people happy. How about a
> > loadable personality (IIRC SAPDB has something like that), to exchange
> > the parser in use with a custom one (by a SET command)? This way we have
> > a pure ansi default, while enabling a way so someone could contribute an
> > oracle style parser.
>
> How about an external tool that helps in translating apps to
> SQL-standard syntax? Oracle does accept the standard syntax after all.
> That way we are truly helping people liberate themselves: they can
> switch to any SQL-compliant database, not only Postgres.
I totally agree. After all, oracle provides such tools to their customers.
Gavin
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