Re: Oracle MINUS is not supported - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Denis Perchine
Subject Re: Oracle MINUS is not supported
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Msg-id 01031023414308.00608@dyp.perchine.com
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In response to Re: Oracle MINUS is not supported  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> Sorry, I have a bad habit of being too brief. :-)
>
> There have been requests to accept Oracle-specific grammar.  Rather than
> adding complexity to our existing grammar, and perhaps having cases
> where we can't do things the ANSI way and the ORACLE way at the same
> time, we would rather have a pass over the queries before they reach our
> grammar.  The pass would restructure any Oracle-specific syntax into
> PostgreSQL syntax.  That allows us to have all the Oracle-specific stuff
> in the one place, and to turn it on and off as needed.

That what I thought... But this is not so easy... It is something like
converting Oracle->Postgres on the fly... Hugh... For sure I will have no
time for this in near future,,, :-((

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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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