[Tiny-cobol-users] PostISAM

[Merlin M. <mmo...@gm...>]

Hello,

It may interest you to know that I have successfully integrated
PostgreSQL with AcuCorp AcuCobol without using embedded sql.  I did
this by creating a wrapper for libpq (the C interface library for
PostgreSQL) that generates queries from COBOL ISAM file i/o
statements.   I would like to open source the project but cannot
because AcuCorp will not publish key headers necceary to link the
libpq library to PostgreSQL as a file system.

The performance of the PostgreSQL ISAM bridge (which I call PostISAM)
is excellent and competitive with the built in file system.

It may be possible to make a similar effort with TinyCOBOL.  This
would take a fair amount of work to remove the AcuCorp specific parts
and to make everything compile within gcc.  Do you guys think there
would be any interest in this.

Some of the features of PostISAM:
* full support for row-level locks without using locktables.
* automatic copybook generation from tables and views.
* client side logging faclities (file trace).
* support for many (but not all) cobol datatypes
* full support for all file verbs including all combinations of start
and read nex/previous

Merlin