[Zope] Pluggable Brains - Huh?

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:16:20AM -0600, Edward Pollard wrote:
> Well, I know they have a cool name. But thats about it.
> 
> I have a problem that involves returning some data from a zCatalog, and 
> some data from a Postgres database. Both items are treated as 
> equivalent and should be displayed alphabetically side by side.
> 
> I've got a marvelously kludgerific solution that involves copying the 
> search results from the zCatalog into a list, which I can then insert 
> my SQL based results in and sort as I see fit. I don't know if there is 
> a better way, but I'd like to know more about Pluggable Brains so I can 
> determine if there is.

You might consider actually cataloging the SQL data instead:
http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/cataloganything

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Paul Winkler
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