Re: [gnome-db]MySQL provider

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 28 Jun 2001 16:50:13 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:17:53PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On 28 Jun 2001 08:56:34 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I've made some work on the MySQL provider to make it provide
> > > a data types list, and more is on the way for functions and 
> > > aggregates.
> > > 
> > great!
> > 
> > > I have not yet commited the changes because I first wanted to know
> > > if some people are currently working on it. Can you tell
> > > me if that is the case, or if I can commit the work?
> > > 
> > I'm not aware of somebody working on the MySQL provider, so please
> > commit
> 
> Ok, then I'll commit this work soon. 
> 
> Since I don't think we can use SQL commands to get the data types, 
> functions,..., I have used the same technique as with the Postgres provider:
> the recordset which is returned does not come from a MYSQL_RES but from
> a char * tabular, and is managed in the same way as the MYSQL_RES.
> 
> As I have used the same implementation as with postgres, maybe we could
> create a providers/common directory to store this small implementation
> to avoid having it in the gda-postgres-server and in the gda-mysql-server 
> directories.
> What do you think?
> 
yes, sounds ok. Just add it to libgda-server, so that it can be used by
any provider

cheers
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