On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:05:40AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > > Did you have a prefix in mind that is not already in use? Would 'sl_' be > > appropriate, for example? You can find the current list of assignments at > > about line 320 in DBI.pm, and 'sl_' appears to be available. (The longest > > current prefix is 'monetdb_'; if you requested 'spatialite_' as the prefix, > > that would be 3 characters longer than the current longest.) > > I'd like to see the trend go the other way, and use the full name, just > like many other DBDs do. Characters are cheap, and "sl" not only gives no > clue as to what driver is meant to the viewer of code that uses it, but > risks future collisions as well. So +1 to using 'spatialite_'
+1 Tim.
