On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:38 PM, David Shrewsbury <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not the output formatting that is what is attractive, it's that > in combination with the ability to be selective about which > rows are returned. And to be able to join against other tables > to make CSV report files to be delivered to someone is a > powerful feature that can be done in a single statement. I
Executing arbitrary statements can be done just as easily by the scripting language of your choice. > think this is used for such reporting pretty commonly (though > I have no actual numbers to back it up) and it would be a > shame for us to lose such functionality, or to have to resort > to a more complex solution where the logic is all moved out > to a script. Hmm. So how are you executing those statements? From the normal client? > All I'm saying is that it is a useful feature. Be sure all aspects > of how it is used is considered before eliminating functionality. Certainly _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
