From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199811141538.KAA28695@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
In-Reply-To: <199811140734.CAA21920@candle.pha.pa.us> from Bruce Momjian at
	"Nov 14, 1998  2:34: 4 am"
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:38:08 -0500 (EST)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, robinson@public.bta.net.cn,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
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> > 	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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