Re: cutting out the middleperl

On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> Kev wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if
>> anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P
>> out
>> of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is
>> having
>> everything encapsulated into sql (or plpgsql or plperl where needed)
>> functions stored in the pgsql server, and have Apache communicate
>> with
>> pgsql via a tiny C program that pretty much just checks whether the
>> incoming function is on the allowed list and has the proper data
>> types,
>> then passes it straight in. Any errors are logged as potential
>> security
>> breaches.
>
> Sounds something like mod_libpq:
> http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html

Or SQL-on-rails
http://www.sqlonrails.org/

Cheers,
Steve