Re: cutting out the middleperl

[Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>]

On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> 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

Or SQL-on-rails
    http://www.sqlonrails.org/

Cheers,
  Steve