GDA: Status

[Derek Atkins]

Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> writes:

>> Or would it be more expedient to pick a technology that has a proven
>> track record, proven stability, is NOT a moving target, and is
>> already available in most distributions?
>
> One problem with libdbi is that its scope doesn't cover everything that
> libgda's does.  From what I can tell, libdbi doesn't have any apis to
> cover table/index creation, and that is one area that has a lot of
> individuality (e.g. autoinc integer fields).

Is that the only individuality?  Or are there others as well?
Could we abstract those pieces out ourselves?
How do other projects using those technologies handle that?

-derek

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