On 8/29/12 2:41 AM, David Myers wrote:
Hello derby discussion,
This is my first post, so be gentle ;)
I have 2 questions, where do I send 'enhancement requests' for discussion?
Hi David,
I recommend moving this discussion over to the [email protected]
mailing list. If you are interested in contributing to Derby
development, these web pages are a good place to start:
http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_comm.html
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/ForNewDevelopers
Welcome!
-Rick
Where should I begin if I want to get involved in helping development?
(particularly to contribute code I have already developed to 'enhance'
the user experience - in this instance a key word test, see below).
Here is some background....
I've been working on derby DB from the user side for a while, and I
have a few 'enhancement requests'.
Most notably:
A native way to check if a word entered by a user is a derby 'keyword'
or not. The databaseMetaData.getSQLKeywords() only returns those that
aren't SQL92 keywords. There is a long list of others that can be
found in the docs that are also keywords.
I've already writen code to implant these values into a table in the
DB so as I can check against them, and I would be more than happy to
contribute this to the community. So as during install the values are
inserted into an appropriate system table
Extended characters / escape characters.
Prepared statments are fine, but I obviously went for the use of the
java / unix '\' as an escape character... to no effect in a normal
statement. This caught me on a 'create table' statement on a field
with an apostrophe. The field title showed belonging, and without it
the meaning of the field was ambiguous.
Obviously I would quite like to get involved in developping derby, but
I'm not sure how much time i'm going to have, between 4year old twins,
and house renovations !
Any advice is most welcome.
Thanks in advance
