Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

SCassidy@overlandstorage.com wrote:
> A "PostgreSQL to Oracle converter" might be a really big project.
>
> Having ported an application from PostgreSQL (7.3) to Oracle 9i, as I
> recall, my biggest problems were:
>
> -  Quoting issues:  the original PostgreSQL application quoted
> integer/numeric type, and Oracle will not allow that, so I had to make sure
> only types that had to be quoted, were.  (I normally do not quote numbers
> in PostgreSQL, but I inherited the application).

What does the standard say about that? Which types of values in Oracle
need to not be quoted?

Regards,
    Jeff Davis