Re: [open-cobol-list] Postgres

[emre]

emre wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> >     
> You are correct, I don't really _need_ to go to an SQL. What I am really 
> looking
> for is an easy way to get ODBC. Thinking about this further, the extra 
> SQL layer
> will probably slow things down unacceptably.
>   

So what I really want to do is to be able to periodically synchronize 
some fields in
one COBOL table with an SQL table. I could probably do this externally 
in perl
or else use something like libdbi to do it in COBOL. Then, I can use an 
SQL (such as
postgres or mySQL) which has an existing ODBC server.

Emre.