From: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> |
Cc: | "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com>, Antonio Mendez <antonio(at)unbol(dot)bo>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] {Maybe not so OT} interface to MSsql server |
Date: | 1999-01-19 03:04:11 |
Message-ID: | 36A3F62B.EEA94A88@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> > The FreeTDS drivers are at http://metalab.unc.edu/freetds/index.html
> > And they are planning a TDS Gateway - a program that provides TDS
> > (ie MSSQL and SyBase) clients with access to other databses, the
> > first one being - surprise! - PostgreSQL.
> > From that on - maybe we could contemplate moving our FE-BE protocol
> > over to TDS. I suspect they are currently implementing much more of
> > ANSI standard SQL CLI than the current (IMHO not very elegant)
> > protocol.
> I have not looked at it, but I guess that they already have things
> like prepare statements, standard binary format for data (which should
> of course be made extendable for PGSQL), column bindings, getting
> column info, and possibly other things needed to make effective
> interactive client apps.
And we'll get to figure out how to mix LGPL and BSD licenses in our code
base...
- Tom
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