Re: LinuxTag wrapup

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:

> An external tool helping translating sql is fine, but nothing to be 
> defined todo for core pgsql IMHO. I still believe some minor "oracle 
> helper" behaviour (not to call it oracle compatibility, to avoid wrong 
> expectations) should be added. Currently, pgsql appears a bit arrogant 
> towards those oracle centric people (always a matter of point of view, 
> of course). We could avoid this by offering some concessions.

Actually, we had added awhile back a set of 'Oracle compability' stuff to 
the backend, to handle some of the non-standard functions that Oracle 
users had access to ... is there a reason why that can't be extended?  Or 
are we talking about *really* core changes here?

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