[Schematics-development] News

[Noel W. <noe...@ya...>]

Hi all,

A few new additions in src/libs/database: a native
PostgreSQL driver by Bruce, and a native MySQL driver
by me.  Both are very alpha; the MySQL driver hasn't
even been tested.  Both are generated using SWIG. 
SWIG is very easy to use; I strongly suggest anyone
doing native bindings takes a look at it.

At some point we want a common low-level DB API.  This
is to be a layer below SchemeQL, similar to Perl
DBI/Java JDBC/Python whatever-they-call-it.  We should
aim for SRFI-cation.  The plan, as such, is:

> Layer 0: Absolutely minimal (connect, execute, ...)
> Layer 1: Full but ugly (create-prepared-statement
...)
> Layer 2: Nice macros (with-db-connection etc.)

If anyone wants to start a discussion on the list, go
for it.  At the moment I feel I should finish my
current projects before getting deeply involved in any
others but I won't be able to resist responding to the
odd email here and there. :-)

Noel

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