Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!marti
From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: INGRES/Expert system interfaces
Message-ID: <670@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 10:17:19 GMT
References: <696@afit-ab.arpa> <7099@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: ETH Zuerich
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In article <7099@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, larry@xanadu.uucp (Larry Rowe) writes:
> We have developed a Common Lisp interface to RTINGRES called Common
> Lisp INGRES (CLING).  The current version runs in Franz Allegro Common
> Lisp or Lucid Common Lisp and RTINGRES Version 5.0 (QUEL).  All query
> language commands are supported.  We plan to produce an SQL version when
> we upgrade to RTINGRES Version 6.0.

How interesting.  Could you supply some specifics?  Did you write a
pre-compiler similar to EQUEL?  If not, what C procedures do you
eventually call?  The IIxyz (e.g., IIwritedb) variety?

The reason I am asking is the following:  We wanted to develop a Modula-2
call interface for a reasonable commercial relational database system.
One of the products we considered was RTI INGRES.  Therefore, I wrote
a letter to RTI in Frankfurt, West Germany, who seem to be the official
distributer for INGRES in German speaking Switzerland.  In that letter
I asked if they were willing to provide us with documentation of the
internal INGRES C call interface (the IIxyz procedures), if we bought
their system.  This was in October of 1987.  As of today, I am still
waiting for their response.  (Well, not really:  We bought Oracle in
January 1988 and had the Modula-2 call interface up and running a couple
of weeks later.)  I guess that you as cofounder and officer of RTI did
get the relevant information ...

--Bob (Robert W. Marti)

PS:  At least, I now get RTI marketing hype every two months or so.

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