Re: inclusions WAS: Increased company involvement

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>>>> Sorry, you lost me -- what are server-side drivers?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Oh, good ... I ended up sending Josh an email offlist asking this, cause 
>>>> I
>>>> figured I was missing something ... but now I feel vindicated(?) knowing
>>>> I'm not the only one confused by this one :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Drivers that get used on the server at least some of the time, like 
>>> libpqxx
>>> and JDBC, as opposed to drivers which are strictly client-only, like 
>>> pgODBC.
>> 
>> 
>> JDBC gets used on the server?  Where?  Same with libpqxx ... where is that 
>> used on the server side?
>
> The app server is where it would be used. The app server may also be the 
> database server but in all if you look at it from the paradigm of PostgreSQL 
> is the server, there is no server side driver. Only client side. Where the 
> app server is the client.
>
> Confusing enough?

Not really, since that is exactly as *I* thought it was ... a client side 
connector, not server side :)  If both the JDBC and DB server are on the 
same physical machine, that is a design choice, but if we go by that as 
making it a 'server side driver', then pretty much any add on for 
PostgreSQL (DBD::Pg, php4-pgsql, etc) would fall under the same realm ...

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