Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - what about Oracle portability.
> 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. How about an external tool that helps in translating apps to SQL-standard syntax? Oracle does accept the standard syntax after all. That way we are truly helping people liberate themselves: they can switch to any SQL-compliant database, not only Postgres. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org