On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:08:34AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2010, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On lör, 2010-06-19 at 22:56 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > > These projects need help to realise that adding Postgresql is > > > not a big job, especially for those using JDBC which can already > > > connect to all DBs. It strikes me that if the project could > > > write a few pages gleaned from other porting operations, then > > > whenever a project like this is found they can be pointed to > > > these pages and shown how easy it is to do. > > > > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreS > > QL > > > Excellent, I had not realised this existed. I will point any > projects I meet which have not found Postrgesql goodness at this > page. Thank you. > > I don't support anyone has written a "how to write database agnostic > code" guide? I have. :) http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/32-Portability-Part-I.html http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/33-Portability-Part-II.html > That way its not a matter of porting, more a matter of starting off > right. You're assuming that the goal of "database agnostic code" is reasonable. I'd take a hard look at the trade-offs first. "Database agnostic code" sounds like a reasonable idea until you've had to maintain such code for a few years. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
