On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:05:10 +0100, Wladimir Palant wrote: > Philip Chee wrote:
>> This may be my oracle background showing up, but using views and some clever >> SQL is a much better approach that what you are suggesting. Of course >> somebody may just tell me that MySQL doesn't have views. > Ok, I tell you this: MySQL doesn't have views :) Aaaack! I was actually joking here! > Your points would be very valid if we were to develop a new system here. > But we don't, we have Bugzilla already. To implement even the simplest > of your suggestions you would have to change lots of code. And you would > have to do it all over again every time you install an upgrade. Your Not if we submit these patches to mozilla.org and get them accepted :-) > Btw. using symlinks to access the same table from different databases is > an official and supported feature of MySQL 4.0. MySQL is aware of the > fact that is has the same table under different names and treats it > accordingly > (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/symbolic-links-to-tables.html). Gee, wotahack. Any chance of migrating Bugzilla to postgres? Phil -- Philip Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Typed on my Ultra Megger Wallet Whammer. * TagZilla 0.059 _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
