Re: cutting out the middleperl

From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cutting out the middleperl
Date: 2007-03-27 14:34:33
Message-ID: euba1q$nnk$1@sea.gmane.org
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Kev wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if
> anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out
> of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is
> having
> everything encapsulated into sql (or plpgsql or plperl where needed)
> functions stored in the pgsql server, and have Apache communicate with
> pgsql via a tiny C program that pretty much just checks whether the
> incoming function is on the allowed list and has the proper data
> types,
> then passes it straight in. Any errors are logged as potential
> security
> breaches.

Sounds something like mod_libpq:
http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html

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