From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
Cc: scrappy@hub.org
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: robinson@public.bta.net.cn
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:38:08 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <199811141538.KAA28695@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199811140734.CAA21920@candle.pha.pa.us>
> > 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.
Would nice. Hope there is no performance penalty.
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