Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
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>
> Dear Josh,
>
> Thanks for you reply at length.
>
> It helps me understand the "raw" about my suggestion.
> Some short comments and joke signs:
>
>
> > Adding == would cause harm in the following three ways:
> > 1) It would impair portability between PostgreSQL and other databases that
> > support the SQL standard.
>
> Oracle, M$ and others spend a lot of energy so that what you write for
> their tool won't be so easilly portable, thus once you've started with
> them, you'll stay forever.
>
> You're arguing that pg should help its "customers" to leave it easilly,
> what is quite paradoxical! ;-)
[remainder elided]
Perhaps the PostgreSQL community is sufficiently confident in the
quality of its product that it doesn't feel the need to resort to
odious lock-in tricks? ;)
Jim