On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:12 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/20/12 12:52 PM, John Townsend wrote: >> >> By by-passing the "dll" (or "so" on Linux) library I mean you write >> function or procedure calls to the server that is running as a service on >> Windows. You don't use the library with its 160 exported functions. You >> connect directly to the server thus saving one layer of protocols. To do >> this, you have to translate all the c functions you need (not just the >> headers or ".h" files) into pascal. Not a trivial task! > > the database service is a completely separate collection of processes. you > can't just 'call' between processes, you need a RPC mechanism. sockets are > as good a mechanism as any. In that case, yes, there are such implementations around. Martijn mentioned a few, and I mentioned the Pike one, all of which do indeed bypass libpq and talk directly to the server. It is, as I understand it, an open and stable protocol, so it's no different from writing a program that connects to port 25 and talks SMTP rather than dropping to sendmail. Chris Angelico -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
