Re: gda-builder and gda-mgr

[Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <rmoya tsai es>]

Brian Jepson wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja wrote:
>
> > I don't think Murray's plans are to integrate gda configurator into the
> > unixODBC project, but to have the ODBC part of the gda configurator work with
> > both.
>
> I think I am beginning to understand - this will centralize the
> configuration of data sources. Here is a scenario that reflects my
> understanding. Can you help correct it?
>
>    Goal: Create a GDA data source that uses the ODBC provider to connect
>          to the my_db database on the local PostgreSQL server.
>
>    1) Start up the UnixODBC configuration tool.
>
>    2) Select the User DSN tab.
>
>    3) Add an ODBC data source called MyDSN that uses the PostgreSQL
>       ODBC driver, the database server on the localhost, and the database
>       my_db.
>
>    4) Select the ??? tab.
>
>    5) Add a GNOME-DB data source that uses the ODBC provider and the MyDSN
>       data source.
>

That's correct more or less. The only thing is that the specific provider config
tool may add any extra feature they want, apart from adding and removing data
sources. The ODBC part will be as the ODBC Config dialog in windows, but other
providers may add things (I can't think of any right now).

Cheers