A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stark) wrote: > So, just to throw out a wild idea: If you're talking about making large > changes to the on-the-wire protocol. Have you considered using an existing > database protocol? This would avoid having to reinvent the wheel every time > postgres implements a new feature like prepared queries, bind arrays, or > metadata information. > > There is a free implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol used > by Sybase and MSSQL. I don't know how much of it would be interesting for > postgres and how much is Sybase/MSSQL-specific. > > It would be pretty neat if postgres could use precisely the same on-the-wire > protocol as other major databases, just requiring a separate high level driver > to interpret the semantic meaning of the data. > > At the very least it sounds like interesting to do a compare and contrast as > far as understanding what advantages the features TDS has have and what > disadvantages, before postgres possibly misses good ideas or makes the same > mistakes.
Let me take the liberty of pointing people to documentation to the TDS protocol: <http://www.freetds.org/tds.html> I agree that there are far worse ideas, when opening up the DB protocol, than to look at some existing protocols, and TDS would seem a reasonable one. It doesn't look overly efficient, but it's not overtly gratuitously inefficient... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc@" "enworbbc")) http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linuxxian.html DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by Unix. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS. -- from David Vicker's .plan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
