Re: [HACKERS] Re: University Masters Project

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Bruce,
> > 
> > The replacement of the existing client/server communication project with
> > CORBA looks very interesting, I would love to get involved with something
> > like that. Is there anyone working on it at the moment? What area of it
> > would you like me to look into, any ideas of how I could turn a project like
> > that into a good Thesis? If you can give me some pointers I'll go and speak
> > to my tutor about it all.
> 
> 
> [CC'ing to hackers for comments.]
> 
> Well, one idea is to create a server that listens on a certain port for
> CORBA requests, sends them to a backend for processing, and returns the
> result.
> 
> The other idea is to replace our current communication system that uses
> single-character flags and data with a corba model.  See developers
> documentation for deals on that.
> 
> I think the first on is clearly good, the second may suffer from
> performance problems, or it may not be worth changing all our interfaces
> to handle a new protocol.

I'm curious as to whether there is a way of testing that without too much
trouble?  Even the investigation of *that* might make for the thesis in
itself? 

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