Re: HTTP Frontend? (and a brief thought on materialized views)

From: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dobes Vandermeer <dobesv(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: HTTP Frontend? (and a brief thought on materialized views)
Date: 2012-03-30 17:44:20
Message-ID: CAAZKuFapGZC49bsM8qFZtSQSAga6t8D38x1tSG_83feZ3+00Sw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> Any enhancement here that can't be used with libpq via, say, drop-in
> .so seems unworkable to me, and that's why any solution that is
> basically proxying to the database is basically a non-starter outside
> the very earliest prototyping stages.  The tuple scanning and protocol
> semantics can and even should remain the same, especially at first.

I should add: proxying could work well if libpq had all the right
hooks. The server could remain ignorant. Regardless, upstream changes
result.

--
fdr

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