Re: [gnome-db] Re: GRAND MASTER PLAN

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

Linas Vepstas wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:58:47PM +1300, Dru was heard to remark:
>  
>
> > But you can make it more complex.
> >
> > grand_master_copy_from_sql (&someobj, "select ae,aa.e from ae,aa where 
> > ae.c>'3' and ae.b=aa.b");
> >
> > and then for extra trickness
> > grand_master_copy_from_myotherobj (&myobj, another_unrelatedobj);
> > So you can make MeinPad's from MeinBlau's.
> >    
>
> Yes. One needs to allow mappings between C objects and tables to 
> not be 1-1 (one C object might map to bits of various tables).
> And there needs to be non-trivial querying on the client side. 
>
> These are the reasons why I said 'libgda is not enough', and these
> are the reasons why I've worked on things like dwi and qof, and why
> I want to continue working on them. 
>
> --linas
>
>
>  
You can build this on top of libgda.