On 2019-Jul-30, Tom Lane wrote: > OK, so just lifting DBD::Pg in toto is out for license reasons. > However, maybe we could consider writing a new DBD driver from > scratch (while using a platform-provided DBI layer) rather than > doing everything from scratch. I'm not sure how much actual > functionality is in the DBI layer, so maybe that approach > wouldn't buy much.
Then again, maybe we don't *need* all the functionality that DBI offers. DBI is enormous, has a lot of extensibility, cross-database compatibility ... and, well, just the fact that it's a layered design (requiring a DBD on top of it before it even works) makes it even more complicated. I think a pure-perl standalone driver might be a lot simpler than maintanining our own DBD ... and we don't have to convince animal maintainers to install the right version of DBI in the first place. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
