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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:01:39 +0200
From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
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To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
CC: scrappy@hub.org, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, robinson@public.bta.net.cn,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
References: <199811141538.KAA28695@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > 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.

AFAIK, many of them (ODBC,tcl(the portable one),JDBC) speak native
wire-protocol.

> 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.

I don't know about it, it probably depends on which ORB we will use.

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Hannu