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Re: 7.3 schedule

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Brian Bruns <camber@ais.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, Ashley Cambrell <ash@freaky-namuh.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-04-13T13:32:38Z
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On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 03:04, Brian Bruns wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > IIRC someone started work on modularising the network-related parts with
> > a goal of supporting DRDA (DB2 protocol) and others in future.
> 
> That was me, although I've been bogged down lately, and haven't been able 
> to get back to it.

Has any of your modularisation work got into CVS yet ?

> DRDA, btw, is not just a DB2 protocol but an opengroup 
> spec that hopefully will someday be *the* standard on the wire database 
> protocol.  DRDA handles prepare/execute and is completely binary in 
> representation, among other advantages.

What about extensibility - is there some predefined way of adding new
types ?

Also, does it handle NOTIFY ?

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Hannu