Re: RFC C++ Interface

> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:53:11PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I appreciate your comments and would like to respond to your concerns.
> > > The API I sketched in my earlier e-mail is borrowed heavily from
> > > Rogue Wave's dbtools.h++ library.  I think it can be a very clean and
> > > elegant way of accessing a database.
> > 
> > Rogue Wave's API is quite interesting.  It would be a challenge to
> > implement.  If you think you can do it, I think it would be a real win,
> > and a real object-oriented API to PostgreSQL.
> 
> I was co-architect of the Rogue Wave Dbtools.h++ interface design (along 
> with somebody who actually knew something about databases, Stan Sulsky) in 
> the early 90's.  We really tried to make the "Datum" type unnecessary in 
> normal programs.  To my disgrace, I didn't participate in implementation;
> it was implemented mainly by Lars Lohn, who went on to a stellar career 
> as a consultant to users of the library.
> 
> At the time, ODBC was just beginning to be used.  Oracle was already
> a bully, actually moreso than today; we had to buy a full production 
> license just to develop on it.  Ingres was much better; they sent two
> engineers to do the port themselves.  
> 
> The design is really showing its age.  SQL92 and SQL3 didn't exist then,
> and neither did the STL or the ISO 14882 C++ Language standard.

Can you suggest areas that should be changed?

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