James Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> Postgres is highly extensible. I wrote compatible types for my mssql emulator 
> to avoid exactly that problem (being Microsoft, they have their own ideas of 
> how types should behave, and also I could make the underlying data format 
> compatible with the wire format).
>
> I'd be doing a complete parse and rewrite of the language though, so
> any of the language and type differences would be easily
> solvable. Some of the other differences your links highlight around
> foreign key and atomicity behaviour would be harder.

On the plus side, a lot of apps don't care that much if at all :)

OTOH, it may not be worth the effort if it's just one simple app... but
that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a *lot* of fun and a good challenge to
try and do it :)

-- 
Stewart Smith

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