[HN Gopher] Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres ___________________________________________________________________ Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres Author : ke4qqq Score : 85 points Date : 2021-10-28 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (babelfishpg.org) (TXT) w3m dump (babelfishpg.org) | XorNot wrote: | Well this is a big deal for me: my father has run his business | off a sprawling MS Access application which I've struggled at | various times to try and move to something more modern with no | success. | | I wonder if this will work for connecting to MS Access directly. | data_ders wrote: | as a user of TSQL in a MSFT/Azure shop, I feel increasingly | isolated from other dialects. Virtually all other databases these | days use a dialect that's closer to PostGres. Does TSQL have a | future? If you don't have legacy dbs and you have a choice of | dbs, would TSQL ever make sense to use today? | [deleted] | Mortiffer wrote: | Very cool. Will see if we can reuse some of these super | complicated views we have in our backlog with SQL server apply | bobnamob wrote: | The posted title seems a little editorialised. Is the (finally) | necessary? | dang wrote: | We've made the title be (a subtstring of) the article title | now. Submitted title was "AWS (finally) drops code for | Babelfish - the SQL Server to Postgres translator". | ahachete wrote: | This is fantastic news. | | I already blogged about it when it was announced on December last | year [0]. Adding SQL Server compatibility opens Postgres to new | users, use cases, markets. It makes one of the most general- | purpose databases to reach even more "purposes". | | I hope work and discussions to integrate this upstream will start | soon and will be fruitful. It won't be easy, but I believe it | would be definitely worth the effort. | | [0]: | https://www.ongres.com/blog/aws_announces_open_source_postgr... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-28 23:00 UTC)