On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:33:05AM -0700, Konstantin Izmailov wrote:
> Some companies have policy to stay DB agnostic, i.e. use standard
> SQL only.
That's called shooting yourself in the head.
Unless you have a very, very specific, business-critical reason to pay
this huge cost, you should never attempt it. That some companies have
silly, self-destructive policies is not a reason for anybody not
working there to pay attention to same.
More details on why it's so inevitably expensive below:
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/32-Portability-Part-I.htmlhttp://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/33-Portability-Part-II.html
Cheers,
David.
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