From: Jeff Davis <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T03:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a One True Postgres interface? Is	Ruby-postgresmaintained?

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:49 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Nothing else works seamlessly on Windows. :) But seriously, there is an 
> add-on you can get when you install PostgreSQL 8.3 on Windows that 
> contains an ancient implementation of Ruby and Rails -- with PostgreSQL, 
> of course. I looked at it briefly, and I have no idea how it was talking 
> to PostgreSQL.

Interesting.

> At this stage of the game, I think a pure Ruby PostgreSQL (and MySQL) 
> interface has some serious advantages over struggling with numerous C 
> compilers for Windows, Mac, Solaris, etc.
> 

In my experience with ruby-pg, there were only minor issues with
platforms other than windows. I solved all the problems that I know
about on OS X, linux, solaris, and freebsd. It probably works on some
other platforms as well. Windows is the only difficult case, as far as I
can tell.

Trying to maintain all the code to implement the PostgreSQL protocol
would be a huge project, and not one that I have the time for.
Furthermore, people need to trust their database driver, and I can
provide a certain level of that trust by using the well-tested libpq
rather than trying to implement it myself.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis