Yeah, you'll need a REST proxy. I wonder if someone has built a version of
DBSlayer for Postgres?

http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer

DBSlayer's biggest fault: no authentication.

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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Pascal Voitot Dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Not exactly the answer you expect certainly but wouldn't it better to
> implement a Web/REST service somewhere in the same network as the Postgres
> DB (if you can) which would just extract from Postgres and serve the data
> you need from your GAE app?
> Like that, you don't expose directly Postgres DB to your remote GAE app
> which is something more secure IMHO.
>
> Pascal
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:49 PM, wouterdeg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For an app I need to obtain data from an external PostgreSQL database,
>> do some calculations on it and then show the results to the clients in
>> an MVP set-up.
>>
>> However, from some posts I gather that GAE cannot connect with a
>> PostgreSQL DB over the internet out of its servlet context. Others
>> suggest setting up an 'http proxy' for this.
>>
>> I'm quite a newbie on this, however, I would love to use GAE / GWT for
>> the most part (particularly GTWP). Anyone that has a suggestion how I
>> can get to the data on the Postrgres DB out of my GAE servlet
>> context??
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
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