Re: [gnome-db] Changing a field definition

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:09 +0000, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> >  only missing the implementation
> > on each provider.
> 
> And gda_connection_create_table() and gda_connection_drop_table()
> methods, I guess.
> 
yes, missed those ones, added now.

> I'll try to add the implementations for postgres.
cool! thanks

>  
> > > add_field_to_table()
> > > delete_field_from_table()
> > > modify_field()
> > >
> > hmm, I'd like to have a more 'elegant' way of doing it, like doing it
> > via the data model (both the one returned by get_schema like any
> > others). This involves more work on the providers, but I think it makes
> > more sense, given we already have the update_column API in the data
> > model.
> 
> Note that we already have vfuncs for update_column(), append_column(),
> and remove_column() on the DataModel, but there are no implementations.
> 
yes, right. Do you mean we could not use it then, given we have no implementations? 
What other mechanism can we use?

cheers