Re: Requests for Development

Ross Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>

From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Cc: sqllist <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-11-17T17:30:29Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-sql
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:06:17AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote:
> 
> 	I have this on the way. I started creating such document a
> couple months ago when I was porting stuff from Oracle to PostgreSQL and
> stumbled on the few examples on the documentation. I'd be glad to finish
> it up, add more things to it and then put it somewhere for review,
> comments, suggestions, additions, etc.

Don't worry too much about final polish: "release early, release often!"

> 	Part of this document will be on how to port Oracle PL/SQL to
> Postgres' PL/SQL and PL/Tcl.	

Excellent. Now we need someone to do the MySQL version...

Ross
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