On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> An external tool helping translating sql is fine, but nothing to be
> defined todo for core pgsql IMHO. I still believe some minor "oracle
> helper" behaviour (not to call it oracle compatibility, to avoid wrong
> expectations) should be added. Currently, pgsql appears a bit arrogant
> towards those oracle centric people (always a matter of point of view,
> of course). We could avoid this by offering some concessions.
Actually, we had added awhile back a set of 'Oracle compability' stuff to
the backend, to handle some of the non-standard functions that Oracle
users had access to ... is there a reason why that can't be extended? Or
are we talking about *really* core changes here?
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