Re: [Refdb-devel] refdb db in menu?

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...> writes:

> Bruce D'Arcus writes:
>  > 
>  > Question:
>  > 
>  > Should the base db (now called "refdb") be included in the list of dbs 
>  > in the menu?
>  > 
> 
> I'm not sure how to handle this intelligently. In a shared environment
> you'll always face the problem that your database engine hosts a
> variety of databases that do not belong to RefDB. You should exclude
> these as well. The only way that I can think of is to stick to a
> name pattern for RefDB databases and run listdb with an appropriate
> regexp. Maybe the menu code can use a regexp if one is set in .emacs?

Yes -- it actually already have the refdb-listdb-sql-regexp variable in
there already to support just that. The default for it is "%".

But as far as the base db named "refdb" goes, users should never be
directly adding any data to that via refdbc -C addref or whatever,
right? If so, then I will have the code not add it to the menu.

  --Mike