To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: hannu@trust.ee (Hannu Krosing), pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver and Dates
References: <199804190116.VAA07618@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Aleksey Demakov <avd@avd.garsib.ru>
Date: 20 Apr 1998 13:22:09 +0700
In-Reply-To: Bruce Momjian's message of Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <86son92est.fsf@avd.garsib.ru>
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Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> > I think that getting a common network-neutral binary format should also
> > be in the TODO. Bruce?
> 
> This is an interesting idea.  It would be good to have more discussion
> before I put something on the TODO list.  Not sure exactly where we are
> going with this.

Yes. It would be interesting. And I have even more interesting (or stupid)
idea on this. I have recently read some introductory materials on CORBA
and learned about IIOP which was designed as universal network protocol.
Actually I haven't yet go deep into this CORBA stuff and can't judge
about it. But from what I know it looks promising. If you have a CORBA
interface you no longer have to care about numerous network issues and
different language mappings. So I think CORBAification of PostgreSQL
would be great.

Crazy, yeh?

Aleksey

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Aleksey Demakov
avd@avd.garsib.ru