RE: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS

I agree with you Bruce, as replacing the current protocol with IIOP
would IMHO be a bad idea, and possibly not be implementable on some
platforms.

PS: Theres a Corba/Java example in the source. Works only for Java2 (as
it has a limited orb).

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Bruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent:    09 November 1999 02:10
> To:    mail-list@molnir.com
> Cc:    pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS
> 
> > Is there room for me to work on this project in such a way that it
> is
> > adequate for my masters. If anyone is working on this, or has a good
> > knowledge of the current status of the CORBA implementation for
> PGsql can
> > you please let me know, so I can know whether to get started on this
> or not.
> > The reference thread for my initial point of contact with Marc G.
> Fournier
> > and Bruce Momjian and how they think I should attack the project is
> -
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/1999-09/msg00076.html
> 
> I know of no one working on it.  There were two ideas as I remember. 
> One was to replace our existing client/server communication with
> corba,
> and the second was to have a corba server that accepted corba requests
> and sent them to a PostgreSQL server.  I prefer this second approach
> as
> I think CORBA may be too much overhead for people who don't need it. 
> Our current client/server communication is quite efficient.
> 
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