Compiere ERP and SQL quirks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marek Mosiewicz
Subject Compiere ERP and SQL quirks
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Msg-id MKEOKKDMKPDNCLDGMHPDEEGKCFAA.marekmosiewicz@poczta.onet.pl
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In response to Re: Porting/platforms/buildfarm open issues  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hello

We made Compiere (Open source ERP system) to Firebird (Fyracle)
This is special version of Firebird with added Oracle compatibility (Oracle
PL/SQL).
It made porting much easier, but our experience show that it
would be now also not very difficult with other databases like PostgreSQL.

Compiere contained lot of PL/SQL which size is now largely reduced.
Main problem is some SQL constructions which are not supported.
Particulary something like this is very important:UPDATE sometable set (col1,col2) = (select col_a,col_b from
another_table
where ....)
This construction seems to be quite useful in another cases.

Would be it diffcult and possible to add such syntax to PostgreSQL ?


Marek Mosiewicz
http://www.jotel.com.pl



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