"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Currently used with Oracle databases thru their Extensible >> Indexing Cartridge. >> What we are interested in is finding out whether or not we can use our >> technology directly with PostgreSQL. That would involve, from a overly >> simplistic view, allowing Postgres to use external indexes."
> Does that help any? Well, I spent a little time googling on this, and dug through Oracle documents that seem to have been written by marketroids who think "componentize" is a verb :-( ... but by the time my brain went numb, I hadn't actually seen anything that hasn't been in Postgres for years. What you need to make clear to them is that their existing code base isn't likely to be worth a dime --- if they don't mind recoding, the functionality is probably all there, but there will not be any compatibility of details. There are no standards covering this stuff. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster