On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > Redirection will end up costing us a whole 'nother TCP connection
> > build/destroy which can be disregarded for non-trivial queries, but
> > still may prove too much (depending upon query patterns). On the
> > other hand, it would probably be easier to code and have better
> > throughput than funneling all data through the postmaster. On the
> > gripping hand, a postmaster that mediated all transactions could also
> > implement QoS style controls, or throttle connections taking an unfair
> > share of the available bandwidth.
> > In any event, this could also be the start of a naming service. It
> > should be relatively easy, with either method, to have the postmaster
> > handle connections to databases (not just tables, mind you) on other
> > machines.
>
> Starting to sound suspiciously like the Corba work I've been doing on
> my day job.
>
> We're using ACE/TAO for it's realtime and QoS features, but other
> implementations are probably much lower footprint wrt installation and
> use. I suppose we'd want a C implementation; the ones I've been using
> are all C++...
KDE/KOffice uses Mico, which is also C++...
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