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* 'Official' Interfaces
@ 2003-09-25 07:50 Dave Page <[email protected]>
2003-09-25 10:19 ` Re: 'Official' Interfaces Justin Clift <[email protected]>
2003-09-28 00:38 ` Re: 'Official' Interfaces Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2003-09-25 07:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-www
Hi Guys,
It's been brought to my attention that there is no mechanism in place to
allow people to recognise the best or 'official' PostgreSQL interfaces,
and I don't just mean those in the core distribution, but those that we
consider the best of their type such a psqlODBC, libpqxx, Npgsql and so
on.
Obviously we can list them on a webpage, but what criteria could we use
to select them?
Any thoughts/comments/ideas?
Regards, Dave.
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
2003-09-25 07:50 'Official' Interfaces Dave Page <[email protected]>
@ 2003-09-25 10:19 ` Justin Clift <[email protected]>
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From: Justin Clift @ 2003-09-25 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
Dave Page wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> It's been brought to my attention that there is no mechanism in place to
> allow people to recognise the best or 'official' PostgreSQL interfaces,
> and I don't just mean those in the core distribution, but those that we
> consider the best of their type such a psqlODBC, libpqxx, Npgsql and so
> on.
>
> Obviously we can list them on a webpage, but what criteria could we use
> to select them?
We should probably start with the commonly used interfaces and have a
note on the page asking people to advise us of the others. Then we
should email the link to the pgsql-general mailing list and people there
will suggest most of the things we've otherwise missed.
Hope that helps.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
> Any thoughts/comments/ideas?
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
2003-09-25 07:50 'Official' Interfaces Dave Page <[email protected]>
@ 2003-09-28 00:38 ` Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
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From: Bruce Momjian @ 2003-09-28 00:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
Dave Page wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> It's been brought to my attention that there is no mechanism in place to
> allow people to recognise the best or 'official' PostgreSQL interfaces,
> and I don't just mean those in the core distribution, but those that we
> consider the best of their type such a psqlODBC, libpqxx, Npgsql and so
> on.
>
> Obviously we can list them on a webpage, but what criteria could we use
> to select them?
I talked to the JDBC guys about this already. What we need is a section
in the documentation about the various interfaces that are not
distributed with PostgreSQL, where to find them, and how they differ,
e.g. how are the perl interfaces and c++ interfaces different.
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
@ 2003-09-25 11:42 Dave Page <[email protected]>
2003-09-25 13:22 ` Re: 'Official' Interfaces Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2003-09-25 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Justin Clift <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Clift [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 25 September 2003 11:19
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] 'Official' Interfaces
>
> We should probably start with the commonly used interfaces and have a
> note on the page asking people to advise us of the others. Then we
> should email the link to the pgsql-general mailing list and
> people there
> will suggest most of the things we've otherwise missed.
Hi Justin,
How do we decide which ones to make as official though? There are
currently 2 .NET interfaces out there for example, of which one (Npgsql)
is the official PostgreSQL provider in the Mono source tree (official as
far as Mono is concerned). There has been at least one ODBC driver fork
that I know of, and that was hosted on Gborg as the primary one is.
It seems sensible to point users at one project only - I don't think we
want a situation like MySQL where iirc there used to be a number of
different ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers and OLEDB providers leaving users
confused over which one to choose.
Regards, Dave.
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
2003-09-25 11:42 Re: 'Official' Interfaces Dave Page <[email protected]>
@ 2003-09-25 13:22 ` Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
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From: Marc G. Fournier @ 2003-09-25 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>; pgsql-www
why not a simple "poll" listing the interfaces, and based on votes (ie. #
of ppl using that interface), it rises to the top of the lists? Let usage
denote "best" ... if it isn't, nobody would be using it, would they?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Clift [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 25 September 2003 11:19
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] 'Official' Interfaces
> >
> > We should probably start with the commonly used interfaces and have a
> > note on the page asking people to advise us of the others. Then we
> > should email the link to the pgsql-general mailing list and
> > people there
> > will suggest most of the things we've otherwise missed.
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> How do we decide which ones to make as official though? There are
> currently 2 .NET interfaces out there for example, of which one (Npgsql)
> is the official PostgreSQL provider in the Mono source tree (official as
> far as Mono is concerned). There has been at least one ODBC driver fork
> that I know of, and that was hosted on Gborg as the primary one is.
>
> It seems sensible to point users at one project only - I don't think we
> want a situation like MySQL where iirc there used to be a number of
> different ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers and OLEDB providers leaving users
> confused over which one to choose.
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
@ 2003-09-25 15:07 Dave Page <[email protected]>
2003-09-25 15:16 ` Re: 'Official' Interfaces Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2003-09-25 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>; +Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>; pgsql-www
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 25 September 2003 14:23
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Justin Clift; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] 'Official' Interfaces
>
>
>
> why not a simple "poll" listing the interfaces, and based on
> votes (ie. # of ppl using that interface), it rises to the
> top of the lists? Let usage denote "best" ... if it isn't,
> nobody would be using it, would they?
That's not a bad idea. We could do the same for admin interfaces....
Regards, Dave.
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* Re: 'Official' Interfaces
2003-09-25 15:07 Re: 'Official' Interfaces Dave Page <[email protected]>
@ 2003-09-25 15:16 ` Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
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From: Marc G. Fournier @ 2003-09-25 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>; Justin Clift <[email protected]>; pgsql-www
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 25 September 2003 14:23
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: Justin Clift; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] 'Official' Interfaces
> >
> >
> >
> > why not a simple "poll" listing the interfaces, and based on
> > votes (ie. # of ppl using that interface), it rises to the
> > top of the lists? Let usage denote "best" ... if it isn't,
> > nobody would be using it, would they?
>
> That's not a bad idea. We could do the same for admin interfaces....
The ability to maybe add comments/reviews to each would be good too ...
that way its not what *we* think is the best, but its what those using it
think ...
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