Re: Smb to get involved
От | Pavlo Baron |
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Тема | Re: Smb to get involved |
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Msg-id | 007101c19488$b6b76560$6500a8c0@bw1 обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Smb to get involved ("Pavlo Baron" <pb@pbit.org>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
Ross J. Reedstrom writes: > Hi Pavlo, welcome aboard! :-) > Like any good free software collaborative > project, PostgreSQL is always happy to have new contributors. Just be > prepared for public, honest, _productive_ criticism of your code. oh yeah, I've already comunicated with some core gurus (Tom, Bruce, Thomas) between years about providing a fix for a TODO-item, but it seems to me, the thing I implemented would never match their expectations about how to fix smth. lying deep in the basic code. I thought, nobody ever replies to my first, Oracle-related email, so I used the moment to take a look at the deepest basics. Then, I nerved those guys a little ,) Now, I really don't think the codebase to be the right thing to me - in my honest opinion - there is a great amount of code written by smb. else and there are sufficient codebase experts having and being able to fix all those bugs. But this playing around did really help me to understand some basic concepts of the parser. > If > you've got an itch to make an Oracle compatability layer, scratch away: > noone here will try to tell you what you _should_ be working on. Do > note that being 'just like Oracle' is not a major goal for the project, > but making it easy to port or write software against both databases is. I never wanted to make PostgreSQL=Oracle, oh no. My original idea was to get involved by providing a translation service or a part of it to overlay one of it with the other one. I found some code and an Oracle-specific TODO in the source-tree thinking a bit different from the idea with a Net8 listener from the main TODO - I found this one terrible - maybe because I couldn't find any free documentation on how to implement the Net8 layer. I think, a complete SQL-translater for both databases would be the first step. But there are very very many features with Oracle missing in PG, so the translater Oracle2PG would get a little bit tricky to shallow some things. Is it interesting to discuss this theme now? (Smb. said, it's the wrong moment now for such discussions.) I didn't want to appear where everybody got stressed with the release completion. rgds Pavlo Baron
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