Re: Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Claes Jakobsson <claes(at)versed(dot)se>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012
Date: 2012-04-09 19:21:36
Message-ID: 20120409192136.GE3379@momjian.us
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> but generally speaking jdbc is displacing odbc as the 'go to' library
> for connection between different kinds of database systems, especially
> on non-windows environments. jdbc is to java as fdw is to postgres
> basically. so a fdw exposed jdbc driver should be able to connect and
> gather data from just about anything -- even something like sql server
> so that you could bypass the freetds dependency which is quite nice.

Yes, I can see jdbc-fdw being very powerful.

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