On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - what about Oracle portability. > > > IMHO we should rethink if we could make those people happy. How about a > > loadable personality (IIRC SAPDB has something like that), to exchange > > the parser in use with a custom one (by a SET command)? This way we have > > a pure ansi default, while enabling a way so someone could contribute an > > oracle style parser. > > How about an external tool that helps in translating apps to > SQL-standard syntax? Oracle does accept the standard syntax after all. > That way we are truly helping people liberate themselves: they can > switch to any SQL-compliant database, not only Postgres.
I totally agree. After all, oracle provides such tools to their customers. Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend