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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
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> >  1. simple alternative for the current FE<->BE communication 
> >     protocol.
> ... although replacing our current ad-hoc
> FE/BE protocol with a standards-based protocol (I assume CORBA has a
> recognized standard for the wire-level protocol?) might well be worth 
> doing.

Corba does specify a wire-level protocol, and also several layers above
that, so we would get endian issues resolved as well as
security/encryption, authentication, etc. Also, it may (at least
partially) address the need for different client libraries for different
languages, since there are Corba bindings available for a bunch of
languages. Some of that is up to the package one chooses to use...

                   - Tom