[Pas-dev] Oracle support (finally)

[Mental P. <me...@ne...>]

Well, I commited the preliminary Oracle driver for pas.=20

It works, but I'm not quite happy with it. For one thing, oracle has no
concept of NOW(), it has SYSDATE. So I overrode some extra methods to
print the sql correctly. This doubles mainenence in theory.=20

Whats the feeling of having the time/date function for the database in
the config file?=20
pas.session.db.timefunction=3DSYSDATE
or=20
pas.session.db.timefunction=3DNOW()=20

SOmething like that. That'll cut down the amount of code by a whopping 3
out of 5 methods.

The other thing I had to do was override the dbh method. Oracle needs to
use blobs for this, I had to set the LongReadLen. Not a big deal.=20

So, anyways, this is something I can go one way or the other on. Do we
abstract the date stuff tot he config file, or do we let drivers simply
override methods if needed?=20

I suppose this all means that DB2 support is next :)


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