Re: OO / fe-be protocol

Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm not a Corba guru (at the moment anyway...) so someone else might be
> able to offer a more-informed opinion here.

Ok, I'll go back to reading about Corba and see if I can figure out if
it can do the job.

> (Or we could do neither, instead inventing a brand-new protocol that's
> still Postgres-only, but that seems like it has no particular
> attraction... there's a lot of work invested in the current frontends
> and if we're going to throw it away we probably ought to adopt a
> standards-based protocol.  IMHO anyway.)

But if Corba is not appropriate, what else is there?