Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:23:28 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tim <timfosho@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>,
	legrand legrand <legrand_legrand@hotmail.com>,
	posgres support <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Creating redwood datestyle in Postgres 12
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 04:21:13PM -0400, Tim wrote:
> Yes anything that involves management at a table level is not practical due to
> the size of our database and limited amount of resources (me). I was not aware
> of the orafce extension and will keep it in mind.  
> 
> Tom, we currently are on EDB AS 12 but its becoming cost inefficient to stay
> with EDB due to our scale, since their pricing reflects the size of the
> production VMs that are used. So while this migration might be a pain from the
> application side.. long run it would be cheaper. 
> 
> Jonah, I'm assuming a patch would only apply per Postgres version... so any
> future PG version upgrade would require a new patch? While I'm sure technically
> its doable.. long run it would be more practical to just move away from these
> cursed Oracle dates.

Yes, you might be able to compile it yourself for each version, but if
it doesn't compile, someone will have to fix it.

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