mlw writes:
> On the flip side, I am also working on a PostgreSQL SOAP interface,
> where one does this:
>
> http://somehost/postgresql?query="select * from table"
>
> And a SOAP compatible resultset is returned.
That looks quite similar to the planned XML functionality. While that
plan doesn't
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:39, mlw wrote:
> I was thinking of using SOAP over HTTP as the protocol, and a
> minimalist version at best. If the people want "more" let them add it.
>
> I have an HTTP service class in my open source library. It would br
> trivial to accept a SQL query formatted as a G
Jason M. Felice wrote:
First, a SOAP query should be posted in SOAP message format, not using the
query string as you do. Second, I like the idea of calling external SOAP
services, but consider creating a language 'soap' you could do with a CREATE
FUNCTION type thing. e.g.
CREATE FUNCTIO
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:36:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, CORBA has actually been quite formally standardized, suffers
> from many fairly interoperable implementations, and is rather a lot less
> bloated than any of the XML-based schemes. It might be worth trying,
> too...
T
Jason wrote:
> If you can support xmlrpc instead, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.
XML-RPC has three merits over SOAP:
1. It's a simple specification, and thus readily implemented.
2. Microsoft and IBM aren't fighting over control over it, so it's
not suffering from the "we keep
First, a SOAP query should be posted in SOAP message format, not using the
query string as you do. Second, I like the idea of calling external SOAP
services, but consider creating a language 'soap' you could do with a CREATE
FUNCTION type thing. e.g.
CREATE FUNCTION "foo" (TEXT) RETURNS INTEGER A
I have been working on moving some of my software to a more SOAP
compatible interface. As I was doing it, it occured to me that a generic
function could be written, in PostgreSQL's new function manager that
allows multiple columns to be returned, that is a generic SOAP interface.
All one would
