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Re: [Fwd: MS SQL compatible functions]

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc: Medi Montaseri <medi@cybershell.com>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Ian Harding <ianh@tpchd.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, dean@tmdt.com.tw
Date: 2002-02-07T02:32:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> I dunno... you could also get the type of people that have built (or
> inherited) a pre-existing application written in Oracle/SQLServer/etc that
> no longer want to pay the license fees and would like to switch to
> PostgreSQL, but aren't looking (or don't have the time right now) to
> convert their entire application... having that abstraction layer makes it
> that much easier for them to make the switch...

Yes.  No question about it.  Our biggest problem is that it lacks
_excitement_. :-)

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