Re: [HACKERS] Native OLE DB. What do you think about it

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Coxall [mailto:coxall(at)cream(dot)org]
> Sent: 17 June 2002 13:05
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Marek Mosiewicz;
> PostgreSQL-development; PostgreSQL odbc list
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Native OLE DB. What do you think about it
>
>
> > Ahh, that would be us then :-) Yes, there is a (very) active .NET
> > provider project underway - it can be found at
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql. Note though,
> that this is
> > a native .NET provider being written in C#, it is not OLE-DB (which
> > would certainly be a useful addition to the list of
> interfaces imho).
>
>
> If that's the case, can I please make a suggestion: please
> liaise with the Mono project's ADO.NET people
> (http://www.go-mono.com) as they are doing > exactly the same
> thing, and there's no need for duplication of effort.
>

We have liased with them. Their provider is just a wrapper to libpq,
whereas ours is written from scratch.

Regards, Dave.