On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:19 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > - Many current MySQL users would like to adopt PostgreSQL but feel
> > unable to do so because their application package does not support
> > PostgreSQL at all/well enough or they feel there are technical issues
> > with the MySQL to PostgreSQL code (not data) migration.
>
> And of course they are right. Porting from MySQL to PostgreSQL is a
> problem, one which could only be solved by dumbing down PostgreSQL to
> accept many of MySQL's idiosyncracies, which isn't going to happen.
It does make me think that we should try to adopt some more of MySQL's
idiosyntactics even if we don't fully adopt their idiosyncracies.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
