On 3 February 2017 at 14:27, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2017-01-20 17:01 GMT+01:00 Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com>: >> >> On 01/17/2017 09:26 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> MERGE isn't UPSERT, and isn't even in competition with UPSERT as a >>>> feature. I've written reams of text explaining why this is so in >>>> precise detail, ... >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> This is the webinar that started this whole thread (well the original >> thread, not this weird MERGE/UPSERT stuff): >> >> https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/postgresql_for_oracle_people/ >> >> Thank you to everyone that responded. You will see in this Webinar that at >> least from the Oracle people perspective, PostgreSQL is not an option unless >> it has packages. >> >> The other item that people bring up a few times is Oracle Forms but as >> that is actually external (although dependent) on Oracle, I don't see that >> as our responsibility. > > > DB2 propose using schemas instead packages > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0711zubiri/ > > Now I am working with Oracle application - and I try to understand to Oracle > developers - often pattern is using "Oracle schema" as database - and then > the packages has sense. But there is not a mapping "Oracle schema" = > "PostgreSQL schema" - and packages is a redundant concept in Postgres (and > in all db, where the schema are like namaspace - MSSQL, DB2, MySQL).
It sounds like we could benefit from a documentation section "packages" that describes how to get package-like behaviour (minus the pre-compiled updates) from Pg using schemas and, once added, secure variables. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
