Re: PL/pgSQL 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@nosys.es>)
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On 09/02/2014 02:47 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:

>      Yeah, we differ there. I think having an Oracle compatibility layer
> in PostgreSQL would be the-next-big-thing we could have. Oracle is has
> orders of magnitude bigger user base than postgres has; and having the
> ability to attract them would bring us many many more users which, in
> turn, would benefit us all very significantly.
>
>      It would be my #1 priority to do in postgres (but yes, I know
> -guess- how hard and what resources that would require). But dreaming is
> free :)

Oracle compatibility certainly has merit, I just don't see it as useful 
for core. I would be far more interested in MSSQL compatibility 
honestly. That said, Postgres itself is a rockstar and I think we can 
make our own case without having to copy others.

JD


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>      Álvaro
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