Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/11/30 Robert Haas : > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Stehule > wrote: >> 2009/11/30 Tom Lane : >>> Pavel Stehule writes: I thing so ex-MySQL needs exact DESCRIBE, exact SHOW statement. It is some, what they used long time and then they missing it. >>> >>> You know, if they

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > 2009/11/30 Tom Lane : >> Pavel Stehule writes: >>> I thing so ex-MySQL needs exact DESCRIBE, exact SHOW statement. It is >>> some, what they used long time and then they missing it. >> >> You know, if they're not willing to make any adaptati

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/11/30 Tom Lane : > Pavel Stehule writes: >> I thing so ex-MySQL needs exact DESCRIBE, exact SHOW statement. It is >> some, what they used long time and then they missing it. > > You know, if they're not willing to make any adaptations, they're never > really going to make the transition anyho

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
Pavel Stehule writes: > I thing so ex-MySQL needs exact DESCRIBE, exact SHOW statement. It is > some, what they used long time and then they missing it. You know, if they're not willing to make any adaptations, they're never really going to make the transition anyhow. If we provide bug-compatibl

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/11/30 Robert Haas : > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Pavel Stehule > wrote: >>> >>> Rather than trying to be compatible with MySQL directly, I think we >>> might be better off adding a chapter to our documentation explaining >>> to ex-MySQL users how to accomplish the same things in Postg

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: >> >> Rather than trying to be compatible with MySQL directly, I think we >> might be better off adding a chapter to our documentation explaining >> to ex-MySQL users how to accomplish the same things in PostgreSQL.  We >> might even think abo

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
> > Rather than trying to be compatible with MySQL directly, I think we > might be better off adding a chapter to our documentation explaining > to ex-MySQL users how to accomplish the same things in PostgreSQL.  We > might even think about adding a contrib module with user-defined > functions like

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Russell Wallace wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference:      5218 > Logged by:          Russell Wallace > Email address:      russell.wall...@gmail.com > PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1 > Operating system:   Windows > Description:        E

[BUGS] BUG #5218: Easy strategic feature requests

2009-11-28 Thread Russell Wallace
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5218 Logged by: Russell Wallace Email address: russell.wall...@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1 Operating system: Windows Description:Easy strategic feature requests Details: (There wasn't a separate form f