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From: "James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] APE or not for PostgreSQL 
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:16:35 -0700
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> along the lines of what you're doing, i'd like to
> see a service that can connect to arbitrary SQL
> servers (either remote or local) and provide a
> 9-ish interface to that, much like /net. that way
> applications could be written using the fs
> interface, leaving the back-end up to the user
> (which would be especially useful in heterogeneous
> environments).

This is what I was thinking of awhile ago. For example, I use isql on
my linux box to talk to the big sybase server running on our solaris
machines.  We'd never consider moving sybase to linux at this point,
but having a client to connect is very nice.


Jim