Thread: Porting from FrontBase

I am looking at porting a web application from FrontBase to
Postgresql. If anybody has some tips on how to deal with
this, I'd appreciate hearing him. Thanks.

On 29.11.2007, at 12:30, Martin wrote:

> I am looking at porting a web application from FrontBase to
> Postgresql. If anybody has some tips on how to deal with
> this, I'd appreciate hearing him. Thanks.

If it is WebObjects, you can contact me off-list. I've done that for
some of our apps. It's not really hard.

cug

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:30:53PM -0000, Martin wrote:
> I am looking at porting a web application from FrontBase to
> Postgresql. If anybody has some tips on how to deal with
> this, I'd appreciate hearing him. Thanks.

FrontBase has a Perl DBI driver
<http://www.frontbase.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/FrontBase>, so you may be
able to use DBI-Link <http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/>.

If you try that approach, let me know how it works out :)

Cheers,
David.
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In article <20071129220759.GJ27157@fetter.org>,
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:

>FrontBase has a Perl DBI driver
><http://www.frontbase.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/FrontBase>, so you may be
>able to use DBI-Link <http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/>.
>
>If you try that approach, let me know how it works out :)

Thanks, that looks interesting. Even if it doesn't work out for
porting, I will have to play with it. ;)

BTW, I ported a few of the tables and one of the queries. The timing
difference is quite amazing:

FrontBase:  13 seconds
Postgresql: 42 msec

There's a lot of incentive to do the port ;)