Re: [open-cobol-list] Postgres

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 09 August 2009 02:34:17 pm emre wrote:
> Now I have my application ported/running under OpenCobol...
>
> I'd like to use Postgres and noticed these two points in the FAQ
>
> # Rumours of a potential Postgres layer have also been heard.
> # *AND* as a /thing to watch for/, one of the good people of the
> OpenCOBOL communinity has written a layer that converts READ and
> WRITE verbage to SQL calls /at run time/. More on this as it
> progresses.
>
>
> Are there any updates on these points?
>
> Thanks,
> Emre.


In your applications, what does Postgres do for you that Indexed 
sequential with multiple keys won't?  Ad Hoc reporting is an 
advantage but if that is the application I would use the SQL based 
database stand-alone without COBOL.

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