Re: communication protocol

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, N, 2007-08-09 kell 17:12, kirjutas Omar Bettin:
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> Why not just set up an ssh2 tunnel with both encryption and compression
> and access your remote db over that ?
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I know that possibility, but I'm just thinking probably an "ad hoc" 
protocol for applications  that needs to locate, range, skip, lookup,  
bookmark etc... a lot
of records, could increase the system performance.
By that, I don't want to discuss about PostgreSQL performance by itself 
but about a to much "generalist" protocol.
With libpq, after you got the result, you have to implement locally some 
find, range etc, routines and on the other side there is a DBMS born to 
do that!

My application need both type of connection LAN/WAN and here (in Italy) 
still some lack of wide-band infrastructure.
Also installing certificates on a LAN contest is a bit a "dirty" way to 
solve the problem.

Omar