[GENERAL] DB connectivity from a client machine

[Jasbinder Bali]

Hi,
I have a middle tier application in C on one machine which doesn't have postgres installed.
I have a machine that hosts my postgres database.
My middle tier application wants to connect to the Db server.

Is it mandatory for the m/c that hosts the middle tier application to have postgres installed.
Why I'm asking this is (though generally m/c hosting the middle tier component can connect to the m/c hosting the Db without any DB client installed) because i tried to run ecpg in the middle tier m/c and it doesn't work. Well it would definitely not work coz ecpg comes with postgres.


Can anyone suggest me a work around?

Thanks,
Jas