From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian) |
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 15:38:08 |
Message-ID: | 199811141538.KAA28695@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Except...if I'm understanding even half of this correctly...by
> > implementing CORBA at the FE/BE level, this effectively eliminates the
> > need for *us* to maintain a seperate interface for each language we want
> > to support, since that is what one of CORBA's design goals is...
> >
> > In fact, again, if I'm understanding this correctly, this could
> > potentially open us up to languages we currently don't support...?
>
> 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. 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.
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