Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > The 'support' is essentially specialised comint based interfaces tweaked > > to work with the various SQL database engine command line clients such > > as psql for Postgres and sqlplus for Oracle. This involves codes to use > > the comint buffer to send commands/regions to the SQL client and read > > back the results and run interactive 'repl' like sessions with the > > client. > > Thanks. > > Based on our general policies, it is ok to do this. It is ok for > Postgres because that is free software. It is ok for Oracle because > that is widely known. > > Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > > > It is hard to define "well known". For me, oracle and mssql databases > > are well-known (just by company name), while saphana and vertica are > > not. > > I have never heard of saphana or vertica, which suggests that maybe > this is an issue. However, I don't know the database field, so I > am the wrong one to judge.
I assume that 'saphana' actually refers to 'SAP HANA'[1], which is an in-memory RDMS produced by SAP, the large German software company. I think this product may well qualify as being 'well-known', at least in the field of enterprise software. Cheers, Loris Footnotes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA -- This signature is currently under constuction.
