Re: Acucobol interface - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Acucobol interface
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Msg-id 21198.991779221@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Acucobol interface  (Roberto Fichera <robyf@tekno-soft.it>)
Responses Re: Acucobol interface  (Roberto Fichera <kernel@tekno-soft.it>)
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Roberto Fichera <robyf@tekno-soft.it> writes:
> My first think was to bypass the SQL translation and use the Postgresql low 
> level routines.
> I need to see the tables as record oriented archive, so I can scan 
> sequentially (forward and
> backward) each record, lock/unlock it, insert and delete it and start to 
> read the records with
> a match of a specific key.

I don't think you want an SQL database at all.  Possibly something like
Sleepycat's Berkeley DB package is closer to what you are looking for...
        regards, tom lane


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