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Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 14:42:10 -0500
From: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Organization: Mascari Development Inc.
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To: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Macintosh client
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"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall that pgaccess has an option to use an all-Tcl interface
> > layer instead of libpgtcl/libpq.  That would make it all Tcl and thus
> > in theory easily portable to the Mac.  Check the list archives for more
> > discussion --- I know this question has been asked before.
> 
> I tried the archives, but the search engine bombed out on me. :-(
> 
> I'll keep looking around.
> 
> -- Brett

BTW, in my search for the state of libpq thread-awareness, I
also first tried the archives at www.postgresql.org. And
after a search of:

libpq thread safe

and a wait of 10 minutes, I finally gave up. It seems to me
that the implementation of the search engine does not shed a
very flattering light on the capabilities of PostgreSQL,
when, at PostgreSQL's own website, a simple search criteria
cannot return results within a reasonable amount of time.
PostgreSQL has a (now largely false, I believe) reputation
for being slow compared to its competition. All the
UDM-based search does is serve to reinforce this now
incorrect stereotype.

Mike Mascari