Re: [Tcl-tdbc] [TCLCORE] Tickets for TDBC et al

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Thank you, Kevin, for the detailed answer.
I used the wiki as primary information source.
I tried to update it to reflect all this information...

Am 29.11.2012 15:31, schrieb Kevin Kenny:
> On 11/29/2012 08:11 AM, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
>> I wondered about the odbc implementation and the metadata query commands.
>> I understood, that each driver may return different dict keys.

> So you will see additional columns in the results returned from the
> introspection commands. TIP 308's list is the minimal set.

Thank you, now, as I found the docs and tip350, the image is clearer.

It might be helpful, if there would also be a minimal set for the tables
subcommand. At least the tableSchma might be standardised.

>> Why is the ODBC driver not usable with tcl8.5 but the other drivers are?

> I'd be willing to help guide a programmer who wants to rework a version
> 0.18 of the drivers to build and execute against 8.5 (point out what in
> the code has to change, and so on...) but at present I don't have the
> bandwidth to take it on myself. This is one of several ODBC projects in
> need of an implementor. (I'd like to see the Oracle driver finished,
> have a driver for the SQL Server native API, and have a C version of
> the SQLite3 driver - the Tcl version that we have is pretty slow and
> has a couple of unfixable bugs.)

Thank you for the clarification.
As I tried many times to compile tdbc for tcl8.5, I have at least an
explanation why it does not work.
I don't want to work on the drivers, enough building sites already (as
you) and only little know-how...
But I have put your answer on the wiki to eventually inform others.

Thank you,
Harald