Re: [HACKERS] CORBA interface in backend?

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Michael Robinson wrote:

> I've been banging and banging my head against the specific problem of how
> to tightly couple the object-relational part of postgres with the object-
> list processing part of Python.  In the midst of this head-banging, I thought
> of this possible general solution:
> 
> Put an ORB in the backend.
> 
> Not only would this, in theory, give fairly reasonable performance for 
> persistent object store applications in Python, it would open up PostgreSQL
> for interoperability with any CORBA-interfaced application.  Now that
> PostgreSQL has something of a stored procedural language, that makes it
> even more attractive.
> 
> What I envision is a "dumpIDL" command that, for certain input parameters
> (table/class) would dump the appropriate IDL definition for instances(rows)
> of that class and related methods(functions).  And then hack an existing 
> ORB onto the backend to do all the translation, communications and
> bookkeeping.
> 
> So, I'm soliciting opinions:  is this brain fart worth pursuing, or should
> I just forget it ever happened?

How would this tie into the existing system?  Does this become an
extension of it, or replace parts of it?

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org