Re: Supporting non-free SQL clients in ob-sql

["Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > The 'support' is essentially specialised comint based interfaces tweaked
>   > to work with the various SQL database engine command line clients such
>   > as psql for Postgres and sqlplus for Oracle. This involves codes to use
>   > the comint buffer to send commands/regions to the SQL client and read
>   > back the results and run interactive 'repl' like sessions with the
>   > client.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Based on our general policies, it is ok to do this.  It is ok for
> Postgres because that is free software.  It is ok for Oracle because
> that is widely known.
>
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
>   > It is hard to define "well known". For me, oracle and mssql databases
>   > are well-known (just by company name), while saphana and vertica are
>   > not.
>
> I have never heard of saphana or vertica, which suggests that maybe
> this is an issue.  However, I don't know the database field, so I
> am the wrong one to judge.

I assume that 'saphana' actually refers to 'SAP HANA'[1], which is an
in-memory RDMS produced by SAP, the large German software company.  I
think this product may well qualify as being 'well-known', at least in
the field of enterprise software.

Cheers,

Loris

Footnotes:
[1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA

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