Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries

"Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:

> > Well, the psqlODBC driver apparently ran into a number of problems with
> > libpq that resulted in them not using it for their purpose. Given libpq
> > primary purpose is to connect to PostgreSQL, it failing at that is
> > something that should be fixed.
> 
> I think you are forgetting, that e.g. a JDBC driver will not want to depend
> on an external C dll at all. It will want a native Java implementation
> (Group 4). Thus imho it is necessary to have a defined wire protocol, which
> we have.

I think you are forgetting that this is a complete nonsequitor. 

Nobody suggested eliminating the defined wire protocol. Nor was anybody even
discussing JDBC. Java folks' fetish for reimplementing everything in Java is
entirely irrelevant.

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greg