On 14-Mar-06, at 11:55 AM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail,
> pg@fastcrypt.com (Dave Cramer) transmitted:
>> Ever wanted to retract an email after you sent it ? I realized the
>> complete stupidity of that statement 30 seconds after I hit send
>
> Well, this is a common enough problem that there are occasions where
> people build server-based mechanisms for it...
>
> Oracle has something whose name I misremember where you head to a
> server to get the *real* server configuration.
>
> CORBA had this notion with the Naming Service; you start by getting a
> connection to a Naming Service object, and then ask where the *real*
> services are...
>
> How to do it "right" for JDBC is a good question. Searching for
> .pgpass in $HOME is pretty obvious. It is less obvious where to
> search for pg_service.conf if all that is installed is JDBC, and there
> is no PostgreSQL instance around.
This is useful if you have a $HOME dir, but in the case of a web
application this isn't guaranteed
> --
> output = reverse("gro.mca" "@" "enworbbc")
> http://linuxdatabases.info/info/internet.html
> What do you mean "Why's it got to be built?" It is a bypass.
> You've got
> to build bypasses.
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