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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] LiveWire Javascript and PGSQL
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At 11:49 AM 10/18/98 +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote:
>At 22:56 +0200 on 15/10/98, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
>
>> Has anyone tried LiveWire (any version) against a PQSQL database?
>
>PostgreSQL is not one of the native databases supported by LiveWire. The
>only conceivable way of connecting to PostgreSQL from LiveWire is through
>ODBC.

As I'm just finding out <sigh>.

>Since most of us use unix, usually our web servers are also unix-based, not
>NT-based (yuck). So it would mean using unix-based ODBC.

We're moving off of a WnNT machine to COL Linux-ELF. NT is beyond (yuck)
for production use. We've been trying it, NFG, too many show-stoppers! At
this moment, I am investigating the SCO Livewire wrt installing it on Linux
via iBCS. If I can't get it to work with Caldera FastTrack then I'll try
SCO FastTrack. Maybe I'll learn enough to get it working with
Apache-Ben-SSL (mod_livewire ?<grin>?).

>The problem here is that the ODBC driver for unix is really not a mature
>product. There have been tests and improvements over the last couple of
>months but I for one don't feel confident about installing iODBC, the
>postODBC driver, and the mysterious configuration files just as yet.

I got postODBC under WinNT. Where can I get iODBC? My alternative here is
to scrap 5 months of JavaScript code and do a re-write in g++.

>If you feel up to the challenge, I'll be glad to hear whether you have
>succeeded - especially if you happen to be working on a Solaris sparc
>(2.5.1 or 2.6).

Caldera Linux with v2.0.35 kernel upgrades (Linux Enterprise Server
prototype).

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