Re: [gnome-db] GDA Firebird and PostgreSQL Providers

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 7/18/05, Juan Manuel Mouriz <jmouriz gmail com> wrote:
> Ok, I'm sorry. Now in English. I am not sure that it is understood.
> 
> Thanks Iago for the first translation, you are great and very "solidario".
> 
> I am migrating to GDA an application that I did some time ago in GTK
> where I used PostgreSQL. I want to adapt the connection dialog to GDA
> but I do not want to use GNOME.  It is a simple connection dialog that
> it gives the possibility of add new datasources and see the providers
> features before connect.
> 
> Except ODBC, all providers returns the features without need to
> connect. Loading the module and calling "supports" method and passing
> NULL in connection.
> 
> What I propose to the GDA authors is that drop the line:
> 
> g_return_val_if_fail (GDA_IS_CONNECTION (cnc), FALSE);
> 
> from supports method of Firebird provider (gda-firebird-provider.c).
> Because it does not have sense and the GDA API already check this in
> gda_connections_supports.
> 
> Making this change in GDA, my connection dialog would work for all
> providers (except ODBC).
> 
> I must add this to some wishlist?

Not necessary, I'll do it ASAP (and enable some sort of test when a
connection is really required).

Cheers,

Vivien