On 04/01/11 2:54 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM, John R Pierce<pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>> On 03/31/11 9:34 AM, Annamalai Gurusami wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to implement the client server protocol into an API
>>> interface, without involving the TCP/IP network?
>> sure, done already. 'domain sockets', the default for local connections
>> that don't expressly call for localhost
> er, yes, but that's not the whole story -- everything still has to go
> through the protocol, parsing, marshaling, etc.
how would you implement SQL without parsing, etc? Annamali asked
specifically for an implementation of the existing client-server
protocol without TCP/IP, and thats exactly what the Unix socket
interface is.