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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