Re: [gnome-db] 0.2.93 and gASQL

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> > Well after this gasql simply sits there, dead in the water. But if 
> > course it turns out that it's not just gasql, gnomedb-fe behaves similarly:
> > It finds all the tables in the database (that's a remote MySQL database) 
> > but when I switch to `views' I get: unknown schema type, error number 0 
> > and when I click on a table we crash (well. gnomedb-components crashes), 
> > with the following messages in the terminal:
> in that case, that's a known bug in the MySQL provider, which does not
> support very well some types. Don't you prefer to use PostgreSQL, which
> works far better in gnome-db/gASQL? :-)
Well, I had considered to switch to PostgreSQL for other reasons, but I 
really don't want to go through the trouble of moving all those tables.

> Unfortunately, the stable version (GNOME 1.x) of libgda is not going to
> be fixed, unless you can provide a patch :-( 
Ohh. Well, unfortunately I am too busy with gnumeric to do anything 
about this. Perhaps at some later time.

> This is due to the fact
> that we are concentrating on the GNOME 2 version, and that we've got no
> time to hack in both branches
Andreas

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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow                    
Assoc. Prof of Mathematics
Concordia University College of Alberta
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