Re: Arduino SQL Connector

And that is the way I used to do it, before the Arduino MySQL connector
came out. It was nice not to have to go though the double stepping any
more. Hence my interest in a Arduino PostgreSQL Connector.

Here is how it works today. slim and clean -
http://www.green-trust.org/lmanco/find.php

Steve Spence, KK4HFJ
Director, Green Trust
http://www.green-trust.org
Http://arduinotronics.blogspot.com

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:15 AM, David Rysdam <drysdam(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu> wrote:

> Steve Spence <greentrust(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > It's actually quite freeing, not complicating. I can put the values
> > right into the fields I need them to be in (or get values from the
> > database I need to control the Arduino), without going through a
> > intermediate process. If you have a serial process I can look at that
> > works with 1000 or more remote sensors all over the world to a hosted
> > database server, I'd love to look at it. Right now what I have works,
> > but I have no GIS functionality.
>
> I'm not going to claim this is a great design, but it's at least an
> order of magnitude easier than your proposal:
>
> Set up the simplest web server that will run PHP. Program the Arduinos
> to submit POST requests to it (which is just networking you say you can
> already handle), by which they submit their SQL strings. Write a PHP
> script that passes those to PostgreSQL.
>
> The webserver should be able to handle at least as much as what you were
> going to throw at the DB server, so there's no load problem.
>