On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Robert Calco wrote: > > > 3. A standard metadata API. Each RDBMS does this differently and it would > be > > nice if developers of, e.g., ORM tools and such did not have to "roll > their > > own" metadata query and manipulation logic. > > Not sure if that really belong to an API though. > > Perhaps such information are better left to the database: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_metadata > > > I would probably make these > > separate clibs to allow developers to load only what they need. > > Again, to me at least, it would be more beneficial to have a proper, > consistent information_schema view, rather than some LuaSQL specific API. > I would like LuaSQL to be the db interfacing technology of choice for Lua developers of higher-level abstractions. The goal is make it easy for them to interrogate the structure of databases in a manner that is more or less consistent across drivers. Not, mind you, in the core api, which should be about raw SQL and speed, but in a layer we provide for folks who want to focus on what they DO with metadata than what it looks like in each backend they may need to support. > > > The core > > should remain light/simple. > > Cheers to that :) > Cheers! - Bob > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kepler-Project mailing list > Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net > http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project > http://www.keplerproject.org/ > -- Bob Calco DBA Softcraft Solutions bob.ca...@softcraft-solutions.com
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