Re: GENERAL: PosgreSQL Inquiry

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Bob Krus wrote:

>
>
>     We are doing a conversion from HP3000 to an Intel based system
>     running Unix & will need an RDMBS.  The DB will function as a data
>     server for our core of COBOL programs.  I am not a database guy
>     but am trying to research this issue & determine whether PostgreSQL
>     will satisfy our needs & get at least some idea of how it might work.
>     It seems that the best way for COBOL to communicate with the DB
>     would be embedded code but it does not appear that PSQL supports this.
>     Though this will not be a browser based system, ODBC probably would
>     work.  Would this be as fast as embedded code using Oracle, DB2 or???
>
>     Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide.

I refer you to this article from a month or so ago:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-04/msg00059.php

According to him, his flavor of Cobol is converting from embedded SQL to
ODBC automagically.