Re: Acucobol interface

At 18.13 05/06/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

>Roberto Fichera <robyf(at)tekno-soft(dot)it> writes:
> > My first think was to bypass the SQL translation and use the Postgresql
> low
> > level routines.
> > I need to see the tables as record oriented archive, so I can scan
> > sequentially (forward and
> > backward) each record, lock/unlock it, insert and delete it and start to
> > read the records with
> > a match of a specific key.
>
>I don't think you want an SQL database at all. Possibly something like
>Sleepycat's Berkeley DB package is closer to what you are looking for...
>
> regards, tom lane

I know the Sleepycat's Berkelay DB packages but isn't what I need.
I need a relational database that can be used outside our Acucobol program,
like Excel, Access, Apache and in general a SQL view of our data for external
analysis and presentation. This is why I'm thinking to use SQL and in
particular
the PostgreSQL. Currently there is only one direct interface from Acucobol and
a SQL server and was developed by DBMaker for their SQL server, but have
some limitation that I want bypass.

regards,

Roberto Fichera.