Fwd: Re: [kronolith] kronolith and oracle..

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Brandon Knitter <knitterb@blandsite.org>:

> In the work I was doing at my last company we wrote a transactional
> system which we ended up having to write database independent queries.  
> Most things are identical, but a few things like date and numeric number 
> storage is different across database systems.  Soas to support multiple 
> database vendors, is there any way you guys would be interested in 
> writing an abstration layer?  Or is your plan in the case of not finding 
> a common ground to just simply say that certain databases are not 
> supported.  For the most part it's quite easy to abstract, just a matter 
> of making database resource files, typically the largest one being
> a reusable general one, and just overrides for certain queries on
> different dbs.

I think a layer, probably as part of Horde - something like a DB_Type or 
DB_Data class? - would be a good thing to have for date storage, etc.

-chuck

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