Re: Oracle/PostgreSQL incompatibilities

I think he means that you can do this in oracle :

CREATE TABLE test (id NUMBER);

Oracle treats NUMBER as NUMBER(40) I think.
This seems to be an example of Oracle making up standards as they go 
along - do we want to copy this sort of thing ?

I usually just run a substitution of NUMBER(..) -> NUMERIC(..) and 
NUMBER -> INTEGER when transporting schemas from Oracle to Pg.
(This needs a little care - as NUMBER in Oracle has bigger scale than 
INTEGER in Pg)

regards

Mark



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>>>   + PostgreSQL does not support the NUMBER keyword without (...)
>>>     i.e. something in parenthesis following it.
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>> Don't follow this one either.  We don't have NUMBER --- are you speaking
>> of NUMERIC?  If so, I'm not aware of any context where you're required
>> to put a precision on NUMERIC.  Again, may we see an example?
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> Ditto.
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> Sincerely,
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> Joshua D. Drake
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>>             regards, tom lane
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