Re: Oracle MINUS is not supported

On Saturday 10 March 2001 21:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Ultimlately, what we would like is a pre-grammar to convert Oracle-isms
> to PostgreSQL/ANSI.

Not sure that I get what do you mean? Could you please be more verbose.

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> > Hello,
> >
> > Oracle has MINUS keyword used instead of EXCEPT.
> > I know that this sucks, but I like sometimes to test Oracle queries on
> > PostgreSQL (I should use Oracle...).
> >
> > Here is a patch to make minus working same way as except. I am not sure
> > it is complety correct (I am not very big guru in grammars... Just wrote
> > draft version of Oberon-2 -> C++ translator). Please someone more
> > expirienced check that all is fine.
> >
> > BTW, I am not ask for inclusion in current tree. I just create a patch,
> > and if someone need it it can be picked up.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely Yours,
> > Denis Perchine
> >
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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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