From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200309280038.h8S0c5b27837@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 'Official' Interfaces
In-Reply-To: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B83AF24A@mail.vale-housing.co.uk>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:38:05 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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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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