On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have in the past queried this mail group regarding the availability
> of / interest in a direct PERL RDB module, e.g. DBD::RDB, which would
> allow perl to query directly to RDB instead of requiring SQL Services
> plus DBD::Oracle.
>
> Other contributors to this channel have expressed interest in such a
> module as well. As far as I understand this is on some people's "wish
> list" but not yet beyond the concept stage.
Yes, as far as I know noone has bothered to write either a DBD::Rdb driver
or an Rdbperl equivalent for any perl VMS or otherwise.
> I recently spoke with Jean-Fran�ois Pi�ronne, a former contributor to
> this channel as well as a former colleague of mine. He has since
> swallowed the serpent's bitter fruit, so to speak, and has written an
> RDB module for Python.
>
> He has suggested that the port of such a module to PERL might be
> relatively easy. Does anyone have any opinion on how complicated, and
> desirable, such a port would be? Does everyone who has RDB databases
> use the DBD::Oracle module plus SQL Services? We are reluctant to
> implementing such a strategy because SQL Services adds a lot of
> overhead and is considerably slower than direct RDB.
The Python implementation might be useful to look at. Do you know where
it might be obtained from? BTW I don't get much opportunity to do so but
I thought I take this one to point out that interlanguage religious wars
are especially funny in light of the cross polinization that can occur, to
wit:
$ search [...]*.* "Guido van Rossum"/nowarn/window=0
DKB100:[PERL.EXT.FILE.GLOB]BSD_GLOB.C;1
DKB100:[PERL.EXT.FILE.GLOB]BSD_GLOB.H;1
DKB100:[PERL.EXT.FILE.GLOB]GLOB.PM;1
DKB100:[PERL.LIB.FILE]GLOB.PM;1
At any rate, what version of Rdb do you want to run with? What does
$ rmu /show version
return? Do you have an Rdb with the OCI interface installed?
Precompilers, etc?
Peter Prymmer
