On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:43 AM Marcos Pegoraro <mar...@f10.com.br> wrote:
> > My suggestion is: Postgres DOCs are written and have to be read by > Postgres users, just that. If you are Oracle user, search for a tutorial on > how to migrate to Postgres or find tools for it, but not in DOCs > As Tomas, Tom and others pointed out, it's simply because it is a common database people migrate from and ask for help, and people contributed patches to the documentation out of their own need, or to help others. (Several) years ago I wrote a since-deprecated section of the docs to port from PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL because it was needed back then. Because if you write something for Oracle users, SQL Server users can claim > why there is no "Porting from T-SQL to PL/pgSQL" ? > And MySQL users can do the same, and so on. > And those users are welcome to contribute patches to the docs explaining why they think those additions to our docs would be helpful. > Maybe Oracle was the most common DB which migrated to Postgres, but I'm > not sure this is true for today. > I don't know about you, but in my experience that is absolutely not true. I deal with lots of people and companies migrating from Oracle, or whose staff have experience with Oracle and need help adapting that knowledge to Postgres. Roberto
