RE: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS

From: Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, mail-list(at)molnir(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS
Date: 1999-11-09 08:40:04
Message-ID: 1B3D5E532D18D311861A00600865478C25E81E@exchange1.nt.maidstone.gov.uk
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I agree with you Bruce, as replacing the current protocol with IIOP
would IMHO be a bad idea, and possibly not be implementable on some
platforms.

PS: Theres a Corba/Java example in the source. Works only for Java2 (as
it has a limited orb).

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 09 November 1999 02:10
> To: mail-list(at)molnir(dot)com
> Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org; pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS
>
> > Is there room for me to work on this project in such a way that it
> is
> > adequate for my masters. If anyone is working on this, or has a good
> > knowledge of the current status of the CORBA implementation for
> PGsql can
> > you please let me know, so I can know whether to get started on this
> or not.
> > The reference thread for my initial point of contact with Marc G.
> Fournier
> > and Bruce Momjian and how they think I should attack the project is
> -
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/1999-09/msg00076.html
>
> I know of no one working on it. There were two ideas as I remember.
> One was to replace our existing client/server communication with
> corba,
> and the second was to have a corba server that accepted corba requests
> and sent them to a PostgreSQL server. I prefer this second approach
> as
> I think CORBA may be too much overhead for people who don't need it.
> Our current client/server communication is quite efficient.
>
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