Re: [INTERFACES] {Maybe not so OT} interface to MSsql server

> > The FreeTDS drivers are at http://metalab.unc.edu/freetds/index.html
> > And they are planning a TDS Gateway - a program that provides TDS
> > (ie MSSQL and SyBase) clients with access to other databses, the
> > first one being - surprise! - PostgreSQL.
> > From that on - maybe we could contemplate moving our FE-BE protocol
> > over to TDS. I suspect they are currently implementing much more of
> > ANSI standard SQL CLI than the current (IMHO not very elegant)
> > protocol.
> I have not looked at it, but I guess that they already have things
> like prepare statements, standard binary format for data (which should
> of course be made extendable for PGSQL), column bindings, getting
> column info, and possibly other things needed to make effective
> interactive client apps.

And we'll get to figure out how to mix LGPL and BSD licenses in our code
base...

                    - Tom