Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase
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Msg-id 17988.1129700125@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Strangely a pgsql to oracle exporter is a good thing.  It'd be a great
> feature of PostgreSQL.  Imagine how many people would start on
> PostgreSQL if they KNEW that one day they could easily move to Oracle if
> they needed to.  Risk management.

Problem is: to offer such a thing with a straight face, we'd have to
confine ourselves to an Oracle-subset version of SQL.  For instance,
lose the ability to distinguish empty-string from NULL.

            regards, tom lane

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