But previous versions don't, and thus far I think we want to continue supporting 8i, so that those who have it and aren't interested in upgrading for 9i if they can avoid it can still use OpenACS.
It's unfortunate, life would be easier if 8i had supported the SQL92 syntax and aD had been able to follow it, a big chunk of our porting job wouldn't even exist if that had been true!
I am totally open to future packages implemented by the user community
be restricted to 9i, though, in particular packages that begin life as
a PostgreSQL package. This lowers the port-to-Oracle effort for such work and makes it more likely that authors will support both RDBMS's out of the box.
