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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:04:11 +0000
From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Organization: Caltech/JPL
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To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
CC: "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson@cpsgroup.com>,
	Antonio Mendez <antonio@unbol.bo>, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] {Maybe not so OT} interface to MSsql server
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> > The FreeTDS drivers are at http://metalab.unc.edu/freetds/index.html
> > And they are planning a TDS Gateway - a program that provides TDS
> > (ie MSSQL and SyBase) clients with access to other databses, the
> > first one being - surprise! - PostgreSQL.
> > From that on - maybe we could contemplate moving our FE-BE protocol
> > over to TDS. I suspect they are currently implementing much more of
> > ANSI standard SQL CLI than the current (IMHO not very elegant)   
> > protocol.
> I have not looked at it, but I guess that they already have things
> like prepare statements, standard binary format for data (which should
> of course be made extendable for PGSQL), column bindings, getting
> column info, and possibly other things needed to make effective
> interactive client apps.

And we'll get to figure out how to mix LGPL and BSD licenses in our code
base...

                    - Tom