From: Stephen Harris <sharris@nctr.fda.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] database fileservice
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:33:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007310856350.19583-100000@sch1.NCTR.FDA.GOV> (raw)
Nick Gorham wrote:
> If you wanted any help with the port and didn't mind explaining plan 9
> to me I wouldn't mind helping.
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.
That being said, if you want to go for it I will try to help as much
as possible. Query result sets map naturally into a file heirarchy, so
it will be a really nice thing when either port is completed, and we
can write a database file service.
> AS to the dynamic loading, thats half the point of the driver manager,
> you link the application to the DM and select the driver at run time.
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.
Cheers,
Steve
Everything you do from now on will be more fun - Windows 95 installation
next reply other threads:[~2000-07-31 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-31 14:33 Stephen Harris [this message]
2000-08-04 6:15 ` Nick Gorham
2000-08-04 7:19 ` [9fans] which implementation of an fs is cleanest? Matt
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2000-07-29 17:28 [9fans] database fileservice Steve Harris
2000-07-31 9:09 ` nick
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