Re: A thought about other open source projects

then you want your code to call stub functions (with DBSpecific stack parameters)
Insert

Update

Delete(-with-cascade)
Select

I ran into a problem recently where i wanted to LOCK table MySQL which of course is a no-op in MySQL so I carried the driver string as a stack param e.g.

public int Lock(String driver_string_stack_param)
if(driver_string_stack_param.equalsIgnoreCase("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") ; //noop

else{

// do Lock Logic
}

hth
Martin Gainty
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> From: david(dot)goodenough(at)btconnect(dot)com
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] A thought about other open source projects
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:14:10 +0100
>
> On Monday 21 June 2010, Lew wrote:
> > Sim Zacks wrote:
> > >> database agnostic code is theoretically a great idea. However, you
> lose
> > >> most of the advantages of the chosen database engine. For
> example, if
> > >> you support an engine that does not support relational integrity you
> > >> cannot use delete cascades.
> > >> The most efficient way is to have a separate backend module per
> > >
> > > database
> > >
> > >> (or db version) supported. The quickest way is to write code that will
> > >> work on any db but won't take advantage of db-specific features.
> >
> > David Goodenough wrote:
> > > This is what I am trying to encourage. I am asking about the best
> > > way to encourage it.
> >
> > You want to encourage the use of databases that don't support
> relational
> > integrity?
> no, I want to encourage "The quickest way is to write code that will
> work on any db but won't take advantage of db-specific features."
>
> David
> >
> > Really?
> >
> > I think that is a simply terrible idea.
> >
>
>
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