TODO/exotic features/sql*net

Started by Abhijit Menon-Senover 18 years ago3 messages

Regarding this item in the TODO:

SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
to clients

I recently had (an unrelated) reason to look into the SQL*Net protocol
and discovered that no documentation for it is publicly available, and
reverse-engineering it is (supposedly) a violation of the Oracle user
agreement. People have wanted it for years, but Oracle (for whatever
reason) thinks it's a secret worth guarding closely.

I've discussed this item with various people, so I thought I'd mention
this for the sake of the archives.

(IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)

-- ams, who is eternally grateful for protocol.html

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Abhijit Menon-Sen (#1)
Re: TODO/exotic features/sql*net

Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Abhijit Menon-Sen:

Regarding this item in the TODO:

SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
to clients

(IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)

Yeah, if at all, this should be an external proxy server.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: TODO/exotic features/sql*net

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Abhijit Menon-Sen:

Regarding this item in the TODO:

SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
to clients

(IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)

Yeah, if at all, this should be an external proxy server.

Removed from TODO. Thanks.

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