I'm currently studying for a Masters at Brunel University, London. I was looking for a thesis and since I had an interest in Opensource development and databases I thought that I would like to work on PGsql. As I also had an interest in trying to understand CORBA and other related technologies it made sense that I try and work on a project that ties PGsql and CORBA together in some way.
Marc G. Fournier and Bruce Momjian were contacted with regards to this and they seemed to think that there was room for me to work on this, although at this stage I hadn't gone through the mailing list.
since then I've finally got PGsql up and working and I'm now embarking on understand how to system actual works. I thought a good place to start with my research would be to go through the mailing lists to try and see the current status for development in this area. I did this for several hours trying to get the current take on CORBA with regards to PGsql. It seems there was a lot of initial talk back in Nov 1998 on the hackers list with the first thoughts of some sort of CORBA implementation. The conversation orientated over 2 main areas; which ORB and implementation methods, with some peoples offering to work on this. It was then suggested that the converstaion take place in the interfaces mailing list. I've since been over some of this but find it very difficult to understand the current status with regards to PGsql and CORBA. I've seen many references to people who have developed
a project that allows them to work with PGsql via CORBA, but non of this seems to be part of the main project or system. There is some reference to Micheal Robinson working on an implementation but again I'm not sure how this fits in-http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-interfaces/1998-11/msg00090.html
Is there room for me to work on this project in such a way that it is adequate for my masters. If anyone is working on this, or has a good knowledge of the current status of the CORBA implementation for PGsql can you please let me know, so I can know whether to get started on this or not. The reference thread for my initial point of contact with Marc G. Fournier and Bruce Momjian and how they think I should attack the project is - http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/1999-09/msg00076.html
Regards
Mark Proctor
email : m.proctor@bigfoot.com