On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > I can't speak to your rationale for depending on "low level stuff". > > However, I have not encountered any reason to do so and can think of many > > reasons why it is a terrible idea. > If so please explain how to do notify/listen via > db-api 2.0. Thanks.
Hi Karsten, Notify and listen are not standard SQL (e.g. SQL92). Therefore, I think it is a terrible idea to use it - if you care about using GnuMed with a different database backend. It is a trade-off between convenience/performance(?) and flexability to use notify/listen vs. implementing the same in GnuMed. I tend to think flexibility is more important. :-) Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
