Re: [PATCHES] Oracle compatibility ...

2004-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ patch to support MINUS as a synonym for EXCEPT ] I can't agree with doing this. MINUS is not a reserved word according to SQL99, so supporting Oracle's syntax reduces our spec compatibility by a visible amount. And for what

[PATCHES] Oracle compatibility ...

2004-07-08 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
This week I have been to Southern Germany. This customer has sucessfully migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL. With the help of a gborg package (Oracle style data dictionary) and CREATE DOMAIN they were able to run there current application WITHOUT modification. There was just one thing we have en