Dear Jan, > > If you want to promote postgreSQL, then it should be good that anything > > from outside (whether standard or not) can work with postgreSQL, but > > anything that work in pg may not work outside;-) > > I couldn't disagree more. What you are asking for is to do whatever (you > think) gets the crowds cheering. That is exactly what MySQL attempts by > stuffing one half baked feature after another into their db product and > calling it "integration". What we try instead is to create a stable, > reliable and predictable database server.
Well, I can have different opinions, depending on the standpoint;-) (1) as a sql developer, I may want to have a tool that helps me write portable and standard code. Well, if I know there is a standard. Otherwise, I just want to code, and the more feature the better. (2) as a product developer, I may want to serve all my customers, whether they are of the "standard" type or not. (3) as a product marketer, I may want that my product as distinguishable features so that I can "sell" it because it does more that the standard. I've been involved in a Fortran research compiler, and I assure you that you must support extensions (sun cray...) if you want to take real industrial codes. So on the point that the standard must be supported, I perfectly agree. On the point that anything else should be dropped out: let's do it! I'll send a patch to remove all those non portable features in postgresql that make users write non portable code... But I'm not sure it will be accepted;-) Moreover, having == as a synonym for = is not necessarily in contradiction with a stable, reliable and predictable server. > AND is not an operator, ... The docs says "logical operator". Maybe you mean "is not a pg_operator". -- Fabien Coelho - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster