Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres

The posted title seems a little editorialised. Is the (finally) necessary?

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...

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.

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?

TLDR: this is about some kind of adapter layer ("Babelfish") that lets you serve Microsoft SQL Server clients from a PostgreSQL backend, sort of like how Samba serves Microsoft SMB clients from a Linux file system. It has nothing to do with natural language translation. Oh well.