Re: [google-appengine] Connect from GAE to external PostgreSQL DB?

2011-08-02 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
Yeah, you'll need a REST proxy. I wonder if someone has built a version of DBSlayer for Postgres? http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer DBSlayer's biggest fault: no authentication. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Tue, Aug 2

Re: [google-appengine] Connect from GAE to external PostgreSQL DB?

2011-08-02 Thread Pascal Voitot Dev
Not exactly the answer you expect certainly but wouldn't it better to implement a Web/REST service somewhere in the same network as the Postgres DB (if you can) which would just extract from Postgres and serve the data you need from your GAE app? Like that, you don't expose directly Postgres DB to

[google-appengine] Connect from GAE to external PostgreSQL DB?

2011-08-02 Thread wouterdeg
Hi All, For an app I need to obtain data from an external PostgreSQL database, do some calculations on it and then show the results to the clients in an MVP set-up. However, from some posts I gather that GAE cannot connect with a PostgreSQL DB over the internet out of its servlet context. Others