Re: postgresql and oracle, compatibility assessment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: postgresql and oracle, compatibility assessment
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In response to postgresql and oracle, compatibility assessment  ("Martin Matusiak" <db@juventuz.net>)
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Martin Matusiak writes:

> I am doing a project for college developing a java system utilizing a
> RDBMS. The choice is between PostgreSQL and Oracle and I'm wondering
> exactly how impossible would it be to make it compatible with both.

I tried to do something like that recently and the way Oracle handles
many perfectly innocent SQL commands is completely craptacular.  Don't try
it, especially with Oracle 8.  (9 is better in some regards.)

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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