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Hi there, I have just implemented libdbi in my rsyslog project (http://www.rsyslog.com). I wanted to provide some feedback and also post some questions ;) Rsyslog is a vastly enhanced modular syslogd. It provides a plugin-interface. I am using libdbi for database-ignorant writing of syslog records. This is done inside a rsyslog output plugin, which in itself is a slim code layer. If anybody is interested, a quick look can be found at its cvsweb: http://rsyslog.cvs.sourceforge.net/rsyslog/rsyslog/plugins/omlibdbi/omli bdbi.c?revision=1.5&view=markup I would like to thank you for the nice piece of software. I was able to create the rsyslog plugin in roughly 3 hours and most of this time was spent on evaluating why it did load drivers with the Fedora 8 default packages. It turned out that the reason was that rsyslog dlloads its own plugin which than calls libdbi. I did an install from the most recent source and that fixed the problem. I have to admit I am still a bit concerned that this causes headaches to my users, but I guess this problem will disappear as the distros begin to pick up the most recent libdbi version. Now to the questions: As I said, rsyslog itself uses plugins. I have no control over who writes and loads which plugins (neither would I like to have to ;)). What happens if another (maybe not-yet-written) plugin also uses libdbi and ALSO calls dbi_initialize()? I guess this is not supported. If so, is there any way inside libdbi to handle that situation. Remember, I can not link the rsyslog core to libdbi, because that would pull in this dependency on any system that runs rsyslog as the default syslogd (currently fedora core 8, debian in discussion, others probably follow). A second question is on the status of the Ingres/mSQL and Oracle drivers. I hope it is OK to post here (it's a one-timer and I'd like to save me another mailing list subscription). I got the impression that at least the Oracle driver can be used in practice (I don't have any of these systems to verify). I would appreciate if you can provide my any advise that I can pass on to my users. rsyslog uses very few driver calls, it just opens the connection and then issues queries with "insert" statements. No query results are ever used or read. Thanks again for the nice software and I am looking forward to your replies. Rainer Gerhards ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ libdbi-users mailing list libdbi-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-users
