On 09/02/2014 12:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> As a case in point, EDB have spent quite a few man-years on their Oracle
> compatibility layer; and it's still not a terribly exact match, according
> to my colleagues who have looked at it. So that is a tarbaby I don't
> personally care to touch ... even ignoring the fact that cutting off
> EDB's air supply wouldn't be a good thing for the community to do.
Yep. Especially as PL/SQL is not a lovely language to work with anyway;
if the goal was "a better built-in PL" then PL/SQL wouldn't be my first
choice by any stretch.
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