Re: comparing rows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: comparing rows
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031719390.497-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: comparing rows  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> > Please don't. It seems true that Microsoft has enabled a mode for
> > SQL Server, but the main problem was Access. And Access 95/97 has
> > a huge installed base of users that would not be able to use its
> > automated query tools with PostgreSQL.
> 
> That was what I was afraid of :-(.  Question though: if MS has changed
> the default behavior of their server to be (more) SQL-compliant, aren't
> these folks being forced to update their Access installs anyway?
> Presumably those old versions do not know how to select the non-default
> behavior of SQL Server, so they're gonna be incompatible with newer
> servers despite the nominal presence of a workaround.
> 
> I've got no objection to leaving in the kluge for another release or two
> if there's still a big installed base that needs it --- but I don't want
> to leave it there indefinitely for the benefit of a few tail-end
> Charlies.  Seems like folks running obsolete Access code are unlikely
> to pick up the latest Postgres either, so will it really matter if we
> change?

that was my opinion ... if these ppl are already using it for talking to
PostgreSQL., they have to be running a current release of it with the
kludge inplace ... we're only preventing PostgreSQL admin from being able
to upgrade while their clients are still stuck with the older Access ...




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