From: | Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info> |
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To: | Steve Spence <greentrust(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz> |
Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Arduino SQL Connector |
Date: | 2014-04-18 04:02:34 |
Message-ID: | 5350A3DA.6070807@wi3ck.info |
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On 04/17/14 20:01, Steve Spence wrote:
> I'm trying to port my application from mysql to postgres (for the GIS
> supoort). I had hoped there would be wild enthsuiasm for such a
> project, as the Arduino community is extremely large, and this would
> push postgres into a wider audience. I expected it would take multiple
> people with varying backgrounds to accomplish the task. If you can do
> it on your own, great. I'll be happy to lend what knowledge I have of
> the Arduino and using the mysql connector -
This is a pattern I've seen for over a decade now. People think that
randomly sprinkling "MySQL" into a discussion will generate "wild
enthusiasm" for supporting "their attempt to port *their* appli ..."
wait ... oh ... didn't work again?
Bummer!
Jan
> http://www.green-trust.org/lmanco/find.php
> Steve Spence, KK4HFJ
> Director, Green Trust
> http://www.green-trust.org
> Http://arduinotronics.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz> wrote:
>> On 17.4.2014 19:43, Steve Spence wrote:
>>> Oracle thought it was a good idea to put out a MySQL version, I
>>> figure there should be some effort to counter that here .....
>>
>> Really? I found no information about this on oracle.com or mysql.com,
>> except for a section in the discussion forum with ~20 posts. It's true
>> that the author is apparently a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle, but
>> this seems like a his own project. So much regarding the "Oracle
>> thought" part ...
>>
>> BTW I doubt the approach "Oracle does X => you should do X too" will be
>> fruitful here.
>>
>>> Need a Team lead on this, and I'll collaborate as much as I can on the
>>> Arduino / Networking side.
>>
>> I'm a bit confused. What do you mean by "team lead"? I was thinking that
>> maybe this would be a fun project for the holidays, refreshing my
>> Arduino-fu. But no way I'm interested in being a TL of anything.
>>
>> I was messing with the PostgreSQL protocol [1] recently, and writing a
>> code implementing something like what the mysql connector does would be
>> quite trivial. A day of work, maybe two if you know networking but not
>> the protocol.
>>
>> regards
>> Tomas
>>
>> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/protocol.html
>>
>>
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