Re: [Perfparse-devel] libdbi

[Chris D. <cdo...@cc...>]

Ben and Yves,

Thanks for your warm responses.

I agree that the lack of users listed on the libdbi website doesn't 
look particularly promising however, I think it is probably the correct 
direction to go, assuming that we don't run into performance issues 
that require customized database code. A company that I work for, uses 
the perl package DBI for all of our web applications that interface 
with databases. I don't believe that DBI for perl and libdbi are 
related except that they serve the same purpose for their respective 
languages.

Based on an initial comparison of the MySQL code in PerfParse 0.10 and 
the MySQL dbd module for libdbi, It doesn't look particularly difficult 
to change from the current MySQL specific calls to libdbi calls. Has 
the database interface code been changed significantly for 0.11?

I would like to propose the following plan of action:
1. Produce a patch for 0.11 which enables a configuration option to use 
libdbi in stead of direct MySQL code. (MySQL code is still default)
2. Role the patch into the 0.12 release
3. Down the road (0.13 or later), make libdbi the default and MySQL an 
option.
4. Much farther down the road, we can remove the MySQL option all 
together (or not).

All of this is dependent on getting reasonable performance using 
libdbi. If libdbi is unusable, I will scrap it in favor of writing code 
for each database. If it is usable but not as good as MySQL directly, 
we just might not ever make it to steps 3 and 4 above.

Let me know how this sounds and I am anxiously awaiting the release of 
0.11.

Chris