[dev] Database creation

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> wrote:

> Auto-generation would be neat if we had a tool that reliably did it,
> but without that, I don't see a huge problem with providing
> db-specific scripts where needed.

Yeah.  So I guess I'm thinking for now, we go with db-specific scripts as
needed, and if we see significant activity with Oracle and Sybase etc. and
get to the point where all the pieces are in place for each one, then we
subsume it with an auto-generation tool.  It felt too early to make one at
this stage, because what we have for those other vendors is so incomplete.

(I did auto-generated database table layouts and C++ code at my last job,
and it can be really neat for bigger databases... but our database needs
aren't so heavy yet that we can't do it by hand, IMO.)

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