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Emacs Lisp interface to PostgreSQL

Steven L. Baur <steve@xemacs.org>

Emacs Lisp interface to PostgreSQL. This is PostgreSQL-specific.

Status

To be autodetected by configure.

Code is complete.

Open bugs

None.

Other open issues

None.

Discussion

Steve Baur's implementation of PostgreSQL may not be The Right Thing[tm] but it seems to be solid and working. I propose including the feature, and autodetecting by default. Rationale: I have looked at MySQL and ODBC briefly, and there simply seems to be no alternative to DBMS-specific C interfaces. Furthermore, these interfaces are sufficiently different that Lisp-level code must be written in a DBMS-specific way. Of course, the queries themselves will be in SQL and need not be DBMS-specific, except that different DBMSes implement different parts of SQL, and some implement some functions more or less efficiently. I am not a specialist, but my impression is that all this means that supporting a different Lisp interface for each database is necessary in any case.

Note: Martin has some objection; he says the Perl generic database interface is the way to go. I will check this out.

Closed bugs

None.