Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Wolfgang Wilhelm <wolfgang20121964(at)yahoo(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL
Date: 2010-03-08 15:00:02
Message-ID: 603c8f071003080700o5677ee63xbf77fd89da506a2d@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Wolfgang Wilhelm
<wolfgang20121964(at)yahoo(dot)de> wrote:
> +1
>
> Isn´t that a good time to think to put that question into the list of things
> PostgreSQL doesn´t want to do?

Yes.

...Robert

> Von: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
> François Pérou wrote:
>>
>> My opinion is that PostgreSQL should accept any MySQL syntax and return
>> warnings. I believe that we should access even innodb syntax and turn it
>> immediately into PostgreSQL tables. This would allow people with no
>> interest in SQL to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL without any harm.
>>
>
> This is just fantasy. Doing this will destabilize Postgres, cost us hugely
> in maintenance effort and LOSE us users.

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