From: Leslie Mikesell <les@Mcs.Net>
To: scrappy@hub.org
Cc: les@Mcs.Net
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] ndbm emulation library?
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:37:39 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <199803061737.LAA05557@Mercury.mcs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980306115048.26524N-100000@hub.org>
>
> > Has anyone done an ndbm emulation library that could be linked into
> > existing applications to make them use pgsql tables instead? I guess
> > you'd have to use a default hardcoded database name or pick it up
> > from the environment but otherwise it seems like it should work and
> > be an easy way to get access to the same data via ODBC and all the
> > other ways of using pgsql.
>
> I'm confused, but...why would you want to do this vs using the
> standard libpq interface?
I've already got apps using ndbm (and getting occasional file
corruption). I'd like to fix this and get the benefits of
multi-host access and the ability to write new code to access
the same data in all the ways possible with pgsql. If we had
a wrapper around libpq with ndbm emulation it would be as simple
as re-linking my old apps and migrating the data.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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