2008/11/30 Johannes Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hi!
>
> Am Sonntag, den 30.11.2008, 14:53 +0100 schrieb Vivien Malerba:
>
>
> > So what you need to do first is call gda_connection_update_meta_store
> > (cnc, NULL, &error). You can also pass a non NULL second argument if
> > you want to update the meta store regarding only a part of it (such as
> > only the meta data regarding a table).
> >
> OK, thanks, that fixed this issue. I have an API question though. Why is
> the field "Type's associated GType type" of type G_TYPE_STRING and not
> of type G_TYPE_GTYPE here:
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/libgda-4.0/3.99/connection.html#GdaConnectionMetaTypeHead
>

The reason is that GType values are dependant on the execution instance
(whereas GType as strings are not), which means you can't for example save a
GType value, and load it back because it may not correspond to the same type
then (it might in fact not correspond to a type at all).

Cheers,

Vivien
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