Re: Postgres.js driver - for Node.js

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On 1/8/20 7:00 PM, Jonathan Buhacoff wrote:
> I'm wondering if the short list in the documentation [2] could be
> replaced with a link to the corresponding wiki page [1] ?

>> [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers#Drivers
>> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/external-interfaces.html

IIRC that was one option that was floated. And IIRC there are two
potential issues that arise:

1. While it does easy the administration burden, it's still technically
a validation of drivers in that list. Maybe that's ok, based on what happ=
ens

2. We do ship out documents as PDFs, and said PDFs can be used offline.
If one is trying to understand which drivers are available and they see
a link to it, it may not be terribly helpful :(

That all said, perhaps it's time to update the list in the documentation
and create the guidance in terms of what it takes to have a driver
included in the documentation. I'd be happy to draft up some criteria.

When I last curated the list, I did try to bring it down to specifically
drivers (e.g., not ORMs or tools that enhance PostgreSQL connectivity).

Also, while scanning the list, I also saw that someone recently added
several drivers that appear to be non-OSS. Additionally, a few of the
entries are *not* drivers, which I have gone ahead and removed[1]. I
would say at a minimum, in both the wiki and the docs, we should only
list drivers that are OSS (in particular, so we can actually validate if
they use libpq and support SCRAM), but I will wait until there is some
consensus before removing the other closed-source ones.

Jonathan

[1]
https://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=3DList_of_drivers&diff=3D3455=
4&oldid=3D34553


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