Dear developers,
classifying the questions we got those three days in the PostgreSQL booth on LinuxTag, we had three ever repeating topics, two of them non-surprising:
- what's the difference to MyS***
- what about win32 native
- what about Oracle portability.
The third question was asked from serious corporate users, and what I told them about ora2pg and simple procedure migration didn't satisfy them completely: they asked about oracle sql query syntax compatibility. They were quite disappointed when I told them we're ansi standard and after numerous discussions we don't ever intend to implement that oracle stuff.
IMHO we should rethink if we could make those people happy. How about a loadable personality (IIRC SAPDB has something like that), to exchange the parser in use with a custom one (by a SET command)? This way we have a pure ansi default, while enabling a way so someone could contribute an oracle style parser.
Regards, Andreas
BTW, many people I addressed when they rested for a few seconds in front of the booth just said "no thanks, I don't have any questions, I'm using PostgreSQL and I'm happy with it".
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