RE: [HACKERS] Re: University Masters Project - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Dear All,

Yes I agree with you that something like that might make a thesis in itself,
and definitely sounds interesting.

I really need to sit down and go through PostgreSQL so that I understand how
it all works, so that I can ask questions without wasting everyone's time,
as I'm sure a lot of the questions I currently have will be in the
documentation. I start Uni in 4 weeks time, which by then I hope to have the
basics to PostgreSQL and its architecture, that along with guidance from my
tutor should then give me a good base to start the project on.

I'll keep you all informed of my progress with this over the next few weeks,
and my University's response to my request to work on a project of this
nature.

Who should I direct my correspondance to, as I don't want to start filling
up people's email box's with unessecary email.

Regards

Mark Proctor
Brunel University
Email : M.Proctor@bigfoot.com
ICQ : 8106598

-----Original Message-----
From:    The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
Sent:    Friday, September 03, 1999 12:19 PM
To:    Bruce Momjian
Cc:    mark@polar-digital.com; PostgreSQL-development
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] Re: University Masters Project

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Bruce,
> >
> > The replacement of the existing client/server communication project with
> > CORBA looks very interesting, I would love to get involved with
something
> > like that. Is there anyone working on it at the moment? What area of it
> > would you like me to look into, any ideas of how I could turn a project
like
> > that into a good Thesis? If you can give me some pointers I'll go and
speak
> > to my tutor about it all.
>
>
> [CC'ing to hackers for comments.]
>
> Well, one idea is to create a server that listens on a certain port for
> CORBA requests, sends them to a backend for processing, and returns the
> result.
>
> The other idea is to replace our current communication system that uses
> single-character flags and data with a corba model.  See developers
> documentation for deals on that.
>
> I think the first on is clearly good, the second may suffer from
> performance problems, or it may not be worth changing all our interfaces
> to handle a new protocol.

I'm curious as to whether there is a way of testing that without too much
trouble?  Even the investigation of *that* might make for the thesis in
itself?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick:
Scrappy
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