Re: Supporting non-free SQL clients in ob-sql (was: [PATCH] ob-sql: Add support for Athena)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The 'support' is essentially specialised comint based interfaces tweaked
  > to work with the various SQL database engine command line clients such
  > as psql for Postgres and sqlplus for Oracle. This involves codes to use
  > the comint buffer to send commands/regions to the SQL client and read
  > back the results and run interactive 'repl' like sessions with the
  > client.

Thanks.

Based on our general policies, it is ok to do this.  It is ok for
Postgres because that is free software.  It is ok for Oracle because
that is widely known.

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

  > It is hard to define "well known". For me, oracle and mssql databases
  > are well-known (just by company name), while saphana and vertica are
  > not.

I have never heard of saphana or vertica, which suggests that maybe
this is an issue.  However, I don't know the database field, so I
am the wrong one to judge.

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