Re: ODBC Rewrite

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Shachar Shemesh <psql(at)shemesh(dot)biz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ODBC Rewrite
Date: 2004-12-13 02:18:27
Message-ID: 200412130218.iBD2IRY28923@candle.pha.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-odbc

Stephen Frost wrote:
-- Start of PGP signed section.
> * markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com (markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com) wrote:
> > This is why I suggested either creating a new low level API library on
> > which the linkes of ODBC, libpq, and I guess an OLE DB driver would be
> > built, or perform an amount of surgery the existing libpq and isolate and
> > expose various operations to a normalized API strategy.
>
> Again, it'd probably be better to add the necessary API to libpq so
> everyone can benefit from it than to give access to low-level libpq
> function externally and have all that code in the ODBC driver which it
> wouldn't be available for anyone else...
>
> Also, again I contend that there'd really be much 'surgery' required to
> extend the current libpq API to meet the requirements of, at least, the
> ODBC driver.

FYI, DBDpg needs similar libpq extensions so other languages can clearly
benefit from extending the libpq API.

--
Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us
pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 359-1001
+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road
+ Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073

In response to

Browse pgsql-odbc by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Sudip Banerjee 2004-12-13 23:59:12 Need help with ODBC Driver development
Previous Message Scot Loach 2004-12-12 16:43:27 Re: question about timeout attributes