Re: RFC C++ Interface

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Randy Jonasz <rjonasz(at)click2net(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: RFC C++ Interface
Date: 2000-12-12 03:30:48
Message-ID: 3A359BE8.B243A7DE@alumni.caltech.edu
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> One thing I would like to see, which we have built into our own,
> primitive, C++ interface, is support for binary data retrieval. For some
> applications the savings are huge.
> I haven't thought very hard about how to do this: we do it by having a
> perl script generate structures from the table definitions at compile
> time, which works well in our case, but is not necessarily suitable for
> a library. Code to copy the data into these structures is similarly
> generated. Not sure whether roguewave have a better solution.

This is what CORBA is designed to do. No point in reinventing the wheel
for an on-the-wire protocol.

I'm not sure what the integration path would be for a CORBA-based
interface onto the server.

- Thomas

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