Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interactions and stuff: proposed rules database.

[Horst Herb]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:58, Ian Haywood wrote:
> My intention was to run server-side. When a key event (prescribing,
> starting a consultation, etc.) occurs, a SQL trigger procedure on the
> appropriate table fires up the inference engine to see if a rule
> matches. If it does, it can alert the client by sending a NOTIFY
> message. This doesn't lock the client into a language, and is much
> faster (queries stemming from the rules do not have to traverse the
> network)

Even so it still makes sense to chose Python as the "expert system rules 
language"; either as pl/Python within the postgresql server environment, or 
as external server side scripts.

Horst