Dave, Justin, I have several Informix clients who will be moving to a Postgresql/Aubit4gl solution at some point. The Informix line is, for them, a dead end. One way or another the backend will become Postgresql. Because of the number of SQL statements, I would encourage support where possible and reasonable.
Jordan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Justin Clift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pgsql Hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] request for sql3 compliance for the update command > Justin, > > This is certainly the case here. I think IBM is deprecating informix, > and many informix users are being forced to make a change, and they are > seriously considering postgres as an alternative. > > It behooves us to look at aubit http://aubit4gl.sourceforge.net/ before > making this decision as well. > > > I believe the aubit project has the potential to move postgres forward > considerably as well. > > Dave > > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 21:08, Justin Clift wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Ok, if a patch were submitted to the parser to allow the syntax in > > >>question would it be considered? > > > > > > > > > I would vote against it ... but that's only one vote. > > > > As a thought, will it add significant maintenance penalties or be > > detrimental? > > > > There seem to be quite a lot of Informix people moving to PostgreSQL > > these days, moreso than Oracle shops. Might have been brought on by > > IBM's purchase of Informix. > > > > Wondering if this one change be a significant improvement in regards to > > making it easier to migrate, or just a minor thing? > > > > Regards and best wishes, > > > > Justin Clift > > > > > > > regards, tom lane > -- > Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cramer Consulting > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
