Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com (smtp02.fields.gol.com [203.216.5.132]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA2J3kl45743 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:03:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from keke@mac.com) Received: from tc-1-213.osaka.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.113.213] helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with smtp (Magnetic Fields) id 13rPe2-0000B1-00 for ; Fri, 03 Nov 2000 04:03:26 +0900 From: keke abe To: Subject: Re: Connecting remotely - multi tier Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 04:03:02 +0900 Message-Id: <19340927123446.8209@mail.gol.com> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-Archive-Number: 200011/46 X-Sequence-Number: 82 Adam Lang wrote: > Ok... so if I am writing a distributed application in windows that will use > a Postgresql backend, I should have the client interface another "server" > application, which will inturn access/retrieve informaton from the database? I'd like to know if this kind of layering is mandatory or not. Is it really unacceptable to expose the Posgresql backend to the rest of the world? Is there anything that I should be aware of if I let the clients to talk to the backend directly. regards, abe