Re: proposal for 8.4: PL/pgSQL - statement CASE

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:43:45 +0100
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > we develop PostgreSQL, but why create own syntax for all? Why? Only so
> > we develop PostgreSQL? We have different implementation and different
> > limit, but why create different syntax, I don't understand. It's like
> > Microsoft. Lot of things are little bit incompatible.
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> O.k. hold on guys. I really don't care what you do with plpgsql. I
> don't use it unless I absolutely have to anyway. All I was doing was
> saying that:
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> A. I could give flying donkey butt about being the Oracle-Compatible
> community.

Well, our standard process is to check the ANSI syntax and if the
feature we want isn't mentioned we look at how Oracle or other databases
do it for ideas.  I don't see why that should change.

pl/PgSQL already is aimed at being Oracle compatible so why complain
that the author wants to use Oracle syntax if possible.  If you don't
care, that is fine, but as a project we do, at least in helping people
migrate to Postgres from other databases.

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