Re: New ODBC driver

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
>> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
>> markw@mohawksoft.com
>> Sent: 01 December 2004 13:50
>> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
>> Subject: [ODBC] New ODBC driver
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>> What would be the best way to go about re-writing the ODBC
>> driver to use libpq? (I haven't looked at the code in years,
>> the last time I looked at it was to find a memory leak.)
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>> Is it possible to do it in stages?
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>> Is the transport sufficiently separated to do a quick change
>> to use libpq as the transport, and then gradually use more and more?
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>> My only concern would be that a re-write would re-break a lot
>> of functionality.
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> I haven't looked at it in depth, but I think you will essentially just
> need to rewrite connection.c as a libpq wrapper.
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> I don't think it would be realistic to mix the two approaches though -
> if only because they couldn't share a single database connection.

Why is this an issue? Why not create multiple connections?

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> Regards, Dave.