Quoting Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > IIRC, at one time ODBC *was* a separate project, and we decided that
> > that wasn't working too well. Anyone recall the reasons we pulled it
> > into the main CVS tree? Wouldn't do to make the same mistakes
> twice...
>
> The ODBC driver was created by someone else (Insight something). They
> stopped development and someone had to take it up.
Same with JDBC. It was originally two separate projects when I picked them up
and brought them into the main CVS tree.
Peter
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