On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone done an ndbm emulation library that could be linked into
> > > existing applications to make them use pgsql tables instead? I guess
> > > you'd have to use a default hardcoded database name or pick it up
> > > from the environment but otherwise it seems like it should work and
> > > be an easy way to get access to the same data via ODBC and all the
> > > other ways of using pgsql.
> >
> > I'm confused, but...why would you want to do this vs using the
> > standard libpq interface?
>
> I've already got apps using ndbm (and getting occasional file
> corruption). I'd like to fix this and get the benefits of
> multi-host access and the ability to write new code to access
> the same data in all the ways possible with pgsql. If we had
> a wrapper around libpq with ndbm emulation it would be as simple
> as re-linking my old apps and migrating the data.
So you basically want to "hide" the SQL commands behind ndbm
compatible function calls? Have you looked into what is involved? Do you
want to work on an 'interfaces/ndbm' library? *raised eyebrows*
