From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Joe <dev@freedomcircle.net>
Cc: Dmitry Turin <sql4-en@narod.ru>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: We all are looped on Internet: request + transport = invariant
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:50:05 +0100
Message-ID: <4628B6FD.1030209@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177072978.760.40.camel@pampa>
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Joe wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 12:14 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
>> I'm not sure that anyone is clear why you just don't write this as a
>> simple php/perl/ruby/whatever script? There are libraries that will
>> output XML for you in most of these I'd suspect, and if not it's just an
>> afternoon's work.
>>
>> I mean, your application is written in *some* language, isn't it?
>
> It appears that Dmitry wants that an application, written in whatever
> language, will issue an SQL query (or maybe a TML "query" such as
> "a.b.c") and get back the XML. He's not concerned about loss of
> datatype information because from his perspective the application will
> just "present" the XML and similarly he's not concerned about DDL
> features because TML is a "transport" mechanism.
>
> I hope I haven't totally misrepresented Dmitry's words, but it seems he
> wants to create a universal "database to web" interface language, so
> that you and I won't have to deal with the pesky complications of
> retrieving data in C with libpq or with PHP, Python and what not
> libraries or "adapters", and then have to transform that data for
> display to the user.
OK, but I'm still not seeing how this avoids me having to use
PHP/Perl/etc anyway. I mean, I'm going to need some application logic at
some point, in which case who cares whether the RDBMS has this specific
layout as a format. I can see how it might be useful as a library, but
then there are libraries that provide plenty of XML formatting.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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