Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > > 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. > > I totally agree. After all, oracle provides such tools to their customers.
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