Re: cutting out the middleperl

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>]

Kev wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm still in the design phase of a project.  I was just wondering if
> anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out
> of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack.  What I mean is
> having
> everything encapsulated into sql (or plpgsql or plperl where needed)
> functions stored in the pgsql server, and have Apache communicate with
> pgsql via a tiny C program that pretty much just checks whether the
> incoming function is on the allowed list and has the proper data
> types,
> then passes it straight in.  Any errors are logged as potential
> security
> breaches.

Sounds something like mod_libpq:
   http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html