Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Josh, > > Thanks for you reply at length. > > It helps me understand the "raw" about my suggestion. > Some short comments and joke signs: > > > > Adding == would cause harm in the following three ways: > > 1) It would impair portability between PostgreSQL and other databases that > > support the SQL standard. > > Oracle, M$ and others spend a lot of energy so that what you write for > their tool won't be so easilly portable, thus once you've started with > them, you'll stay forever. > > You're arguing that pg should help its "customers" to leave it easilly, > what is quite paradoxical! ;-) [remainder elided]
Perhaps the PostgreSQL community is sufficiently confident in the quality of its product that it doesn't feel the need to resort to odious lock-in tricks? ;) Jim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
