Sheeri K. Cabral wrote:
> On 7/18/08, *Monty Taylor* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
> I think getting rid of show would be TERRIBLE. However, I agree it
> shouldn't be in the server parser.
>
> There are already two methods in the client lib for show tables and show
> databases. The client program (drizzle.c) already does parsing of the
> input to deal with client commands.
>
> Why not just move all the show == I_S logic into the client level? It's
> in the client that "show databases" matters anyway. That way we can keep
> the commands but remove them from the server...
>
>
> My only caveat is that some folks use this programmatically, so by
> "client" I'd caution for it to be in the "client API libraries" or
> whatever -- Often folks will use things like "show tables" in a PHP
> script......just clarifying to make sure we're all on the same page wrt
> "client" vs. "mysql program which is a commandline client".
Hrm.
Well, I was thinking of having acces in "client API libraries" ... but
hopefully more like:
drizzle_show_tables()
drizzle_show_tables_like("f%")
Than:
drizzle_query("show tables")
Do you think that's good enough?
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