Re: plug-n-play MS SQL Server replacement

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: plug-n-play MS SQL Server replacement
Date: 2004-02-20 22:56:19
Message-ID: m3ad3dqs18.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com
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Quoth josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus):
> Also, if you have T-SQL procedures, you would have to somehow implement T-SQL
> for Postgres; translating the procedures is really not an option.

You would be hit by a lot of other similar sorts of "impedances" to
those found with MySQL.

Most conspicuously, MySQL is most likely an imitator of Sybase
(progenitor of the code that Microsoft sells) in having
"autoincrementing columns" as compared to PostgreSQL's notion of
"sequence objects."
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