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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] List funnies ?
From: David Miller <justdave @ a2central . com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
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On 14 Sep 2000, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> >>>>> "DM" == David Miller <justdave@a2central.com> writes:
> 
> DM> Any chance of using DBI so it will work with a variety of databases and
> DM> not just PostgreSQL?
> 
> I'm not sure it would be reasonable to use anything other than DBI.
> However, if you believe that using DBI lets you make use of any database
> backend without code changes, then you are sadly mistaken.  All databases
> have different capabilities, and DBI only abstracts as much as possible.

Oh, I know that...  but those code changes are easier to make that
way.  If DBI is already the plan, I'll say no more. :)  I'll modify what I
need to get it to work with mySQL once it's working with Postgres and
contribute what I changed to make it work, if you'd like.

Dave





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