Re: SQL feature requests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SQL feature requests
Date
Msg-id 9405.1187890193@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: SQL feature requests  ("Chuck McDevitt" <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>)
Responses Re: SQL feature requests  ("Ben Tilly" <btilly@gmail.com>)
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"Chuck McDevitt" <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com> writes:
> Tom, it isn't just a case of "convenience".  When we are trying to
> convert users from another database (say Oracle for example) to
> PostgeSQL, one of the big stumbling blocks that slows down the work is
> all the little query changes that people have to make

Well, if you're trying to sell it on the grounds of Oracle
compatibility, then it should actually *be* Oracle compatible.
What exactly do they do about the default-alias problem?
        regards, tom lane


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