It would be nice if we could get to the point where you could just choose
the DB of your choice in s fashion like the Atlassian products, however, I
know they don't have boat loads of PL/SQL procedures.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Colin Coe <colin....@gmail.com> wrote:
> My point was that many organisations have Oracle anyway. Its paid for
> and they have the DBA's to support it. Spinning up an RHN instance on
> an existing Oracle DB doesn't cost anymore. The penny pinching with
> Oracle and RHN Satellite/Spacewalk only makes sense (to me) if there
> isn't the existing Oracle infrastructure.
>
> CC
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Tom Lane <t...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Travis Camechis <camec...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Was the original Postgres plan to keep both the Oracle Schema and the
> >> postgres schema requiring any new changes to the schema to be done in
> both
> >> places? That would seem to be a testing/dev nightmare.
> >
> > Yup. There was a fair amount of work on a schema generation tool
> > ("chameleon") that would let both schemas be generated from a common
> > source, but I'm not sure that ever got to the 100% stage. In any case
> > it was ignoring the elephant in the room, namely the thousands of lines
> > of PL/SQL code that could not by any stretch of the imagination be
> > handled that way. There was also a good deal of work (some of it done
> > by me) on doing a manual translation of that code to plpgsql, and as of
> > sometime last year we had a complete though largely untested
> > translation. But I never heard a credible proposal for keeping those
> > two code bases in sync, and I'm sure by now the plpgsql version has
> > bitrotted from failure to track subsequent changes in the PL/SQL code.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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