On 09/02/2014 12:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > As a case in point, EDB have spent quite a few man-years on their Oracle > compatibility layer; and it's still not a terribly exact match, according > to my colleagues who have looked at it. So that is a tarbaby I don't > personally care to touch ... even ignoring the fact that cutting off > EDB's air supply wouldn't be a good thing for the community to do.
Yep. Especially as PL/SQL is not a lovely language to work with anyway; if the goal was "a better built-in PL" then PL/SQL wouldn't be my first choice by any stretch. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
