Steve Teale wrote:
It looks as if it is not a big deal to use the MySQL protocol rather than the client library. I can now log in that way, so the rest should follow, and I am working on the changeover. The current MySQL protocol has been around since version 4.1.
Good to hear that! One note though. MySQL protocol has two row encoding modes, text or binary. Please consider using the latter for better peformance.
Given that Piotr has, I think, already done the same work at protocol level for Postgres, that SQLite is public domain, and that a similar API can be done with ODBC, we should be able to cover a fair range of systems without falling foul of GPL.
Yes, that would be great.
