Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 4B953CF4.4030508@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas wrote:
>> You do know that SQL is Turing-complete, right?
>>     
>
> That seems largely irrelevant to the problem at hand.  It's not
> impossible to do syntactic transformations from one Turing-complete
> langauge to another; if it were, there could be no such thing as a
> compiler.
>
>
>   

If we were engaged in an academic exercise this might be interesting.  
But we aren't. The fact that one can do something is not an argument for 
actually doing it.

cheers

andrew


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