[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/25/2023 12:03 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/24/2023 6:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>                       I wonder if Oracle told them no Rdb unless they
>> quash the port of PostgreSQL to OpenVMS x86.
> 
> I don't see much point for Oracle to do so.
> 
> PostgreSQL is not "Rdb compatible" in any way.

To be more a little more specific:

C module, C SQL services API, C OCI API, Pascal embedded SQL,
Pascal module, Cobol module, Basic embedded SQL and Basic module
will be a complete API change - rewrite to LIBPQ.

C embedded SQL and Cobol embedded SQL should be relative easy
to port (fix connection, maybe something with error handling
and maybe some SQL changes). Cobol assumes that the ESQL
open source thing get ported, but VSI could do that.

Java JDBC, Java JPA, Python DB API and PHP PDO should be
easy to port (mostly changing config).

So some things will be compatible.

But the first category is way bigger than the last
category on VMS.

Arne