Thread: Drivers for Other Languages

Drivers for Other Languages

From
Gordan Bobic
Date:
Hi,

How difficult is it to write a driver for pgsql (via network or UNIX
domain sockets) for an as yet unsupported language?

Specifically, I'd like a driver for JavaScript, for use with Mozilla
JSLib/XPCShell.

I presume there isn't one already, so I guess I'll have to write one.
So, where can I find the specification for the protocol that I am going
to have to talk to the socket?

Many thanks.

Gordan

Re: Drivers for Other Languages

From
Mike Rylander
Date:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:07:06 +0100, Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How difficult is it to write a driver for pgsql (via network or UNIX
> domain sockets) for an as yet unsupported language?
>
> Specifically, I'd like a driver for JavaScript, for use with Mozilla
> JSLib/XPCShell.
>
> I presume there isn't one already, so I guess I'll have to write one.
> So, where can I find the specification for the protocol that I am going
> to have to talk to the socket?

Actually, there is an SQL XPCOM extention for mozilla.  A search for
"sql" at mozilla.org turned up http://www.mozilla.org/projects/sql/ .
It turns out that this extention *only* supports postgres as of now,
with plans for Someone-elsesSQL ;) support later.

>
> Many thanks.
>
> Gordan
>
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Re: Drivers for Other Languages

From
Gordan Bobic
Date:
Mike Rylander wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:07:06 +0100, Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>How difficult is it to write a driver for pgsql (via network or UNIX
>>domain sockets) for an as yet unsupported language?
>>
>>Specifically, I'd like a driver for JavaScript, for use with Mozilla
>>JSLib/XPCShell.
>>
>>I presume there isn't one already, so I guess I'll have to write one.
>>So, where can I find the specification for the protocol that I am going
>>to have to talk to the socket?
>
>
> Actually, there is an SQL XPCOM extention for mozilla.  A search for
> "sql" at mozilla.org turned up http://www.mozilla.org/projects/sql/ .

Wow! Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. :-)

> It turns out that this extention *only* supports postgres as of now,
> with plans for Someone-elsesSQL ;) support later.

Why would I want to use that? ;-)

Gordan