On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:28:55PM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote: > In the teleconference yesterday I suggested converting VARCHAR2 usage in > Oracle schema to VARCHAR as well. But the Oracle 11g docs seem to suggest
Similar answer to the DECODE one -- while it might be a noble goal to get away from nonstandard stuff, it would need to be QA'ed in Oracle, and I don't think you want to delay the PostgreSQL port. In this particular case, it even ... > otherwise: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/sql_elements001.htm#sthref77 > > They keep saying VARCHAR _will_ be treated differently in _future_!!! It has > been 20 years, I don't know when are they going to make the distinction! ... can't be done. > I guess we have to stick with VARCHAR2 for now. Nod. Just do s!\bVARCHAR2\b!VARCHAR! when generating the PostgreSQL schema, for a start. -- Jan Pazdziora Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
