From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se> |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Re: thread-safe libpq and DBD::Pg |
Date: | 1998-08-11 16:50:04 |
Message-ID: | 35D0763C.C5D2DBF8@trust.ee |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se> writes:
> > * A "pure perl"-interface is useful for
> > - systems without decent C-compiler
> > - systems not supported by libpq
> > (there is already a pure TCL interface, isn't it?)
>
> I agree that a "pure Perl" or "pure Tcl" front end would be more
> easily portable than what we have. It'd probably be slower, but
> maybe not so much slower as to be a problem.
I once did an incomplete "pure Python" PgSQL (v6.2) interface, which ran
on both Linux and Win32. It was not that much slower.
> The present libpgtcl is NOT pure Tcl --- it is a C-coded Tcl extension,
> besides which it is layered on top of libpq.
>
> I think I remember someone speculating about writing a pure Tcl
> front end by programming directly to the socket-level FE/BE interface,
> but I haven't heard about any results.
I've got the impression that there is currently a pure Tcl interface
as well that some use with pgAccess on win32.
Hannu
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