Re: [gnome-db] mergeant & oracle

[Steve Fosdick <lists pelvoux nildram co uk>]

Intelligent,

I case you haven't guess I am the current maintainer for the Oracle GDA  
provider which came about because, like you, I wanted to use it and  
there was no maintainer at the time.

On 2003.10.20 16:08, Intelligent wrote:

> it takes about _2_ hours to start up... ))
> then it started, i try to switch views (tables, views, sequences.. in
> order) then it crash.

When the current mergeant first connects to a new data source it asks  
the provider for a list of tables and for each table it asks for  
various other information like the list of columns, what the primary  
key is etc.

For the Oracle provider, the list of tables concerned is all those  
owned by the user you are connected to Oracle as.  If you log in to  
Oracle as SYS or SYSTEM this usually means several hundred tables and  
mergeant will take a very long time to start.

As fas as I know the new version of mergeant being written now will use  
an incremental approach to building up this information and will  
therefore start more quickly in this situation.

The work-around for the time being is to avoid logging in to the  
database as either of SYS or SYSTEM.

Steve.