Re: [gnome-db] New Features fro Glom?

[Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com>]

Libgda saves lots of Meta Data from Database, including primary keys
and foreign key constraints referencing colums in other tables, this
may help.

2009/9/27 Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
>
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:57 -0500, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > Then if I have a database with some tables and relations between them,
> > Can I import them to Glom? I want to create an UI from Glom maybe for
> > little tables and/or views can I do it?
>
> Well, you can create a simple .glom file (for instance, by copying an
> existing one and changing the database name in it), open it and add
> tables. When you add a table that already exists on the server, Glom
> will ask you if you want to use it. I've used that to test a very large
> database.
>
> The creation of the .glom (XML) file could be scripted quite easily with
> a libgda or pygda program, I guess.
>
> It might work. If it doesn't, we'd welcome patches. But I don't have
> time to work on this feature personally.
>
> Glom won't know anything about the relations - or can you suggest how it
> could discover them via libgda.
>
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