On Wed, 4 May 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>>>> Sorry, you lost me -- what are server-side drivers?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh, good ... I ended up sending Josh an email offlist asking this, cause
>>>> I
>>>> figured I was missing something ... but now I feel vindicated(?) knowing
>>>> I'm not the only one confused by this one :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Drivers that get used on the server at least some of the time, like
>>> libpqxx
>>> and JDBC, as opposed to drivers which are strictly client-only, like
>>> pgODBC.
>>
>>
>> JDBC gets used on the server? Where? Same with libpqxx ... where is that
>> used on the server side?
>
> The app server is where it would be used. The app server may also be the
> database server but in all if you look at it from the paradigm of PostgreSQL
> is the server, there is no server side driver. Only client side. Where the
> app server is the client.
>
> Confusing enough?
Not really, since that is exactly as *I* thought it was ... a client side
connector, not server side :) If both the JDBC and DB server are on the
same physical machine, that is a design choice, but if we go by that as
making it a 'server side driver', then pretty much any add on for
PostgreSQL (DBD::Pg, php4-pgsql, etc) would fall under the same realm ...
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