[HN Gopher] Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres
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       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...
        
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