Re: Are there Sql backends that return an array from big_query()?

Will there be compatibility glue for those who’ve worked with the current system? I know of a more than a few cases that would be affected by this change… (such as direct access to master_sql, etc).

Would this change be committed to 8.0 or 8.1?

Bill

> On Oct 30, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Stephen R. van den Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Henrik Grubbstr?m wrote:
>>> I'm toying with something like this:
> 
>>> Instantiate the .pike programs in the Sql.pmod directory using:
>> [...]
>>> As before, this to make sure that we have a driver.
> 
>>> Then, instead of using the compiled program find_dbm returns, we do
>>> something along the lines of:
> 
>>> program realclass =
>>> compile_string("inherit Sql.SQL;inherit Sql."+program_name+";");
> 
>> I don't see a reason not to have the providers inherit the base API
>> directly, now that it is reasonably easy to inherit Pike-code from
>> modules written in C (cf Nettle and __builtin.Nettle).
> 
> Erm, yes, KISS.  All the Sql.pmod/*.pike files could simply be
> made to inherit the Sql.SQL class.  This is possible at the pike
> level (obviously).  Well, that makes the change rather trivial.
> In fact so trivial that it almost seems like I must be overlooking
> something; we could have done this 10 years ago.
> -- 
> Stephen.