Re: [gnome-db] Providers state

On 1 March 2011 10:36, Alexey Zakhlestin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Vivien Malerba <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 28 February 2011 21:56, Alexey Zakhlestin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there some table which lists status of different providers?
> >
> > Sure, see http://www.gnome-db.org/Providers_status
> >
> >>
> >> I ask because I tried to use Postgres provider as backend for Midgard
> >> content repository, today and bumped into limitation:
> >> _gda_postgres_meta__enums is not implemented
> >
> > This is not a limitation, by a reminder that there is a missing feature.
> In
> > this case it's because recent versions of PostgreSQL feature enums, which
> > are not currently analysed in the meta data extracted by Libgda (where
> all
> > the database objects are reported). This has no functionnal impact unless
> of
> > course you need to know all about the enums defined in your database; in
> > this case adding this functionality is not very complicated.
>
> thanks.
>
> in Midgard we use a lot of metadata, so every bit counts.
> for example, your table states that "MySQL 5.0.x" is fully functional,
> but for us only 5.1.x+ works (maybe some latest 5.0.x also do, but
> definitely not all of them) because 5.0.x doesn't provide enough
> metadata
>
> at the moment, we test all our releases against SQLite and MySQL 5.1.
> I just wonder which of other "providers" will work for us, and which won't
>

If there are corrections to be made, I'll make them; all I need is a bug
report (preferably bugzilla but mail is Ok). You're right that I never kept
track of the exact versions of the database servers with which I test. In
the meanwhile, I'll correct the text about MySQL to state that it works with
5.1 (as opposed to 5.0).

Regards,

Vivien

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