On 8/30/06, Bas Driessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:44 +1000, Bas Driessen wrote:
>
> Hi Vivien,
>
> Still struggling with the gda_type to provider data type issue....
>
> There is this new function:
>
> const gchar* gda_server_provider_get_default_dbms_type
> (GdaServerProvider *provider,
> GdaConnection *cnc,
> GType
> gda_type);
>
>
> Just looked into it, but for mysql and postgresql it is useless, since it
> always returns NULL. For the mysql provider there is a file called
> "utils.c". In there is a function called gda_mysql_type_from_gda(). This is
> basically the translation table where I want to have access to. There is a
> also a utils.c for postgres, but appears to be setup differently, but
> assumes it works similar. How would this all come together?
>
> I just want to be able to put in a G_TYPE_STRING as an argument in some
> function and get a provider dependent value back like "varchar" for mysql so
> I can use this in the new method of building a table.
>
>
>
> Ah I see. Is it OK if I add in a function like this in
> gda-postgres-provider.c:
>
> static const gchar
> *gda_postgres_provider_get_def_dbms_type (GdaServerProvider
> *provider,
>
>
> GdaConnection *cnc,
>
> GType gda_type)
> {
> g_return_val_if_fail (GDA_IS_SERVER_PROVIDER (provider), FALSE);
> g_return_val_if_fail (GDA_IS_CONNECTION (cnc), FALSE);
>
>
> return postgres_name_from_gda_type (gda_type);
> }
>
> (and matching declarations etc.) Tested locally and that appears to do the
> trick. This makes
> gda_server_provider_get_default_dbms_type() work for
> postgresql.
>
> Bas.
Please check the latest CVS version where I've implemented those
functions for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite (I realized they were not
implemented after I told you to use them!)
Cheers,
vivien
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