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From: "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: "Stephen C Harris" <scharris@worldnet.att.net>, <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] APE or not  for PostgreSQL
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:30:22 +0100
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> I'm considering having a go at porting PostgreSQL database to Plan 9.
>
> The goal is to provide a SQL query service where one writes a query
> to a "newquery" file and gets back a resultset directory, much
> like one obtains a tcp connection directory.  The directory will have a
> control file for moving in the result set and doing transaction control,
>
> and a file for each field of the resultset under a "data" directory,
> through
> which one can read and write the current record in the result set.
>

i can't say anything about ape but this approach is what I would expect for
a plan9 database

I had been wondering if there was an implemention around that did such a
thing

good luck

Matt