[Info-vax] Migrating from Rdb to Open Source Postgres

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/25/2023 7:18 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2023-02-25 kl. 00:34, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 2/24/2023 2:44 PM, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>>> This was all using Open Source Postgres and the Open Source client,
>>> supported by VSI, on OpenVMS.  The application got a performance
>>> improvement, and in certain cases, a sizable improvement and best of
>>> all, now that the application data is in Postgres, it can be accessed
>>> by a multitude of tools and apps on various platforms.  The
>>> application running on OpenVMS is no longer an island in the
>>> enterprise.
>>
>> Rdb on VMS is very much accessible from tools and apps
>> on various platforms.
>>
>> Oracle provide:
>> * ODBC driver
>> * JDBC driver
>> * ADO.NET provider
>> * SQL Services C API
> 
> And OCI, which makes an Rdb DB to look like a Oracle DBMS DB
> to the application.

That is another C API. I am aware of it.

But I chose to mention SQL Services over OCI, because
I can get SQL Services to work on Windows and Linux,
but not OCI. Must likely that is due to my lack of
experience with OCI, but ...

Arne