From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, robinson(at)public(dot)bta(dot)net(dot)cn, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA |
Date: | 1998-11-14 18:01:39 |
Message-ID: | 364DC583.3052BC8B@trust.ee |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Yea, that would be neat. But considering no one really totally supports
> > CORBA yet, and we already have tons of working interfaces, perhaps we
> > can consider it in the future, or were you thinking in the next 6-9
> > months?
>
> I think I get it now. Currently, all the non-C interfaces use libpq to
> go over the wire to the backend.
AFAIK, many of them (ODBC,tcl(the portable one),JDBC) speak native
wire-protocol.
> If we made the FE/BE protocol CORBA, we
> could modify libpq, and all the current interfaces would still work.
> Then if someone came up with a Smalltalk-to-CORBA interface, they could
> use it for PostgreSQL. Also, if someone came up with a better
> Perl-to-CORBA interface, we could throw ours away, and just use that
> one.
>
> Would nice. Hope there is no performance penalty.
I don't know about it, it probably depends on which ORB we will use.
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Hannu
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