Jim C. Nasby wrote:
Maybe a compatability layer isn't worth doing, but I certainly think it's very much worthwhile for the community to do everything possible to encourage migration from MySQL. We should be able to lay claim to most advanced and most popular OSS database.
We'll do that by concentrating on spiffy features, not compatibility layers. I want people to use PostgreSQL because it's the best, not because it's just like something else.
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