Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:22:41 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 'Official' Interfaces
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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:justin@postgresql.org]
> > Sent: 25 September 2003 11:19
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> > 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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