Re: [gnome-db] Berkeley DB Provider?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 17:16, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 22:34, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > cool! Please go ahead.
> 
> So here it is.
> 
> Attached is a patch for configure.in and providers/Makefile.in + a
> tarball which should be decompressed in the providers directory (not
> part of the patch since I don't want to create the bdb directory without
> your authorization).
> 
please commit

> It is an experimental (but working) release, which supports only
> sleepycat (db3) implementation.  Currently gda_connection_get_schema
> (with GDA_CONNECTION_SCHEMA_TABLES) is used to retrieve the data, as a
> single table of pair values (key and data).
> 
> The connection string must define FILE, and optionally DATABASE (for
> files which contain more than one databases).
> 
> TODO:
>       * support previous implementation (db1)
>
and what about newest ones, like db4? will it work with all?

>       * transactions
>       * updatable data models
>       * a simple sql dialect (via libgdasql)?
>
yes, but we really need to improve libgdasql. We need someone to put
some good work on it so that we can rely on a good SQL parser.

cheers