Re: [gnome-db] new release

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 10:35, Nick Gorham wrote:
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> I will add the ODBC stuff I am working on into the new release when its out.
> 
> BTW, are there docs that detail the shape of the results sets from the 
> schema calls ? I found what the postgres driver does, but it would be 
> good to so the reference, and to see just what some of the fields mean.
> 
a brief explanation is at
http://www.gnome-db.org/docs/libgda/libgda-provider-class.html#LIBGDA-PROVIDER-GET-SCHEMA.I think it is up-to-date.

> I take it that the database access is for a database at a time only,
>
yes, although there is a change_database method that you can implement
if you want to change the current database.

>  is 
> it possible to specify owner in a call to get tables ?
>
yes, the TABLES schema returns:

name, owner, comments, SQL definition

> Are the parameters passed into the schema calls documented anywhere ? I 
> have seen the name=table param into metadata_fields, but can you specify 
> a owner and or database as well ?
>
you can't specify them since we haven't needed (= not implemented) them
in the other providers. But if you need them, just make use of them,
just making sure you add the new parameters to the above document.

cheers