Re: Reporter Question

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> 
> > > what do you mean exactly by row/col api? In gnome-db, data
> > > retrieval is
> > > done this way, maybe you'd prefer to extend it. Although the Row
> > > 'object' is only used in the CORBA interface, the client
> > > libs deal with Recordsets and Fields, but not Rows.
> >
> > I will let Reinhard detail further. :)  I think he had spoke
> > with you and
> > appeared the stubs were created for some of this but the code
> > was still
> > not present or expiremental.
> 
> What we thought about when saying "row/col api" was what we now
> call "updateable recordsets" (see my mail on that topic) with
> the extension of even creating a recordset without SQL.
> An API that does things like "open table customer and give me
> fields name, city and the language text that you look up in
> the language code table"
> 
but again, this looks as the description of the XML queries that are
being added right now.