From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | 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: | 1998-11-15 01:51:41 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142150440.333-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 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.
Ya, was talking to Duane today (he's out there somewhere...just
shy or something *grin*) ... he said there is, get this, a COBOL-to-Corba
interface... :)
It basically opens us up to more languages supported without
having to actually support them :)
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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