Re: Using Postgresql as application server

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

Cc: c k <shreeseva.learning@gmail.com>, Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, sad@bestmx.ru

Date: 2011-08-18T16:16:36Z

Lists: pgsql-general

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
<dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> c k <shreeseva.learning@gmail.com> writes:
>> Many users are using it and found it stable and scalable. Important is that
>> web server is external to the database and a mod_pgsql like mod_plsql is
>> used to connect web server to database. Each page is considered as a stored
>> procedure in the oracle database. I am not thinking of implementing as it is
>
> It's been around for a long time already:
>
>  http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html

mod_libpq looks like it hasn't been updated in quite a while (apache
1.3 only) -- I think a node.js http server is superior in just about
every way for this case.  I 100% agree with the comments on the page
though.

merlin