Re: [9fans] database fileservice

[Nick Gorham <nick@lurcher.org>]

Stephen Harris wrote:

> Unfortunately I'm something of a beginner myself with Plan 9.
> It would probably be a good project to learn Plan 9 with, given that
> you are already familiar with ODBC.  I haven't touched ODBC in years,
> and it looked like for me it would be a learning experience for recent
> ODBC more so than for Plan9.  I'm going to try to port a database
> (postgres) instead because I've been interested in its internals anyway,
> and I think it would be nice to have a standalone database for Plan 9.

Ok, I have a box that I was going to rebuild, I will try and install plan 9
on it and see what happens.

> Yep, this *may be* a real problem though, since as far as I know
> there's no way to load shared libraries in Plan 9, it just hasn't
> needed it so far (which says a lot). You could rewrite a little to
> eliminate the dynamic loading, and instead just compile in the drivers
> you want, but as you say that would defeat the purpose of the driver
> manager.  Creative solutions to this would probably be welcomed by all.

Well there may be a more appropiate method, perhaps opening them as a
device of some such method, I must read more of the white papers first.

> Everything you do from now on will be more fun - Windows 95 installation

<grin>

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Nick Gorham
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