Re: Pg & Tcl - is it dying out?

>> .  If I am following correctly there are two PG/Tcl software packages in
play here.

Yep, but I am JUST talking about PgTcl.

There are three possible PgTcl options, two are from the same developer -
one in C, which doesn't work on Win 7 x64 (and possibly other Win platforms)
a second in pure Tcl which is platform independent but my initial tests have
it running quite a bit slower.

The third is the flightaware package, which does not have a win32 DLL
binary. There is a Visual Studio project in the Win directory (looks like an
old Visual C6.0 project which will not build) and I'm afraid I'm not
familiar with other C compilers to know how to get the make to work (in any
case, it appears to depend on a complete PostgreSQL source install - normal
for 'NIX, not for Windows).

I cannot seem to get anything that will work on a Win 7 x64 client. Perhaps
the problem is elsewhere, but right now the same code Tcl install and libs
DOES run on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 x64 machines, so this is what makes
me question the OS. If anyone has PgTcl working on this platform, I'd love
to know about it.



-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Klaver
Sent: January 31, 2013 6:01 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Pg & Tcl - is it dying out?

On 01/31/2013 10:59 AM, Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
>>> Was there something constructive you might have been asking about
>>> that
> you forgot to include in this email?  If so, what was it?
>
> I don't believe I forgot anything, as there was a question in the
> original post (which you did not include in your snip):
>
> "Are we seeing the demise of PG & Tcl? Should I advise my client to
> NOT upgrade any systems running Tcl apps and stick with legacy OS's?"
>
> Not the demise of PG in general, but specifically of concern for the
> PG & Tcl developers.
>
> Is this not a constructive question, and is it NOT about PG in
> general? I had asked in 2006 where to direct PG & Tcl questions and
> the answer was PGSQL general. See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/725602300608011149i2a88a5b2t96817
> b85318
> 1e29c@mail.gmail.com
>
> Is there now somewhere else I should be asking about this?

Well I think part of the problem is that we may be talking apples and
oranges.  If I am following correctly there are two PG/Tcl software packages
in play here.

) PL/Tcl

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/pltcl.html

Working with Tcl in the database.

2) PGtcl

http://flightaware.github.com/Pgtcl/

Working with PG from Tcl

>
>


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Adrian Klaver
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