Re: any plan for ODBC support in GLOM?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:29 +1000, Noli Sicad wrote:
> On 9/3/10, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:06 +1000, Noli Sicad wrote:
> > > > I guess you mean support for using any database server via ODBC, instead
> > > > of just PostgreSQL.
> > >
> > > Yes, Aside from it also meant GLOM odbc driver,
> >
> > Again, Glom uses PostgreSQL, so why would a GlOM ODBC driver be
> > necessary?
>
> You can edit your GLOM PostgreSQL data outside GLOM,  a limitation.

Yes, you can edit your data outside of Glom.

> No thrid party can access GLOM database - not good / poor for data
> interpolability.

This is nonsense. Glom just uses a regular PostgreSQL server. If it
helps, please forget that Glom uses that server.

> Again, MS Access mdb is a good container for data since it can be
> access and edited outside MS Access.
>
> Apple uses sqlite for iphones. It has good data interpolabity befween
> applications. Addressbook db can be access by other applications as
> well.
>
> Noli

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