Matt,
> I now agree completely. My purpose is to migrate Oracle databases to
> Posgres, and I had thought that Oracle didn't support CURRENT_DATE,
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and so on. However, I've just learned otherwise. So,
> I think the proper migration process for a production database would be
> to first change the Oracle DB to use CURRENT_DATE (or some other
> standard psuedo column), since that will work properly under both Oracle
> and Postgres.
Yep, or use the Orafce project. We're happy to support compatibility syntax
in completely separate add-in projects. Just not in the core code.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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