Re: SQL compatibility reminder: MySQL vs PostgreSQL

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Wolfgang Wilhelm
<wolfgang20121964@yahoo.de> wrote:
> +1
>
> Isn´t that a good time to think to put that question into the list of things
> PostgreSQL doesn´t want to do?

Yes.

...Robert

> Von: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
> François Pérou wrote:
>>
>> My opinion is that PostgreSQL should accept any MySQL syntax and return
>> warnings. I believe that we should access even innodb syntax and turn it
>> immediately into PostgreSQL tables. This would allow people with no
>> interest in SQL to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL without any harm.
>>
>
> This is just fantasy. Doing this will destabilize Postgres, cost us hugely
> in maintenance effort and LOSE us users.