Rainer Gerhards writes: > 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,
Do you have any experimental data which indicate that there will be a problem? I don't mean to claim that there is no problem, but I reckon that both plugins, when linked to libdbi, would load the drivers separately and maintain these copies separately. That is, you'll waste some memory but the plugins and the loaded drivers should not interfere. Would rsyslog be suitable to run such a test, e.g. by loading the output plugin and another (maybe renamed) copy of the same plugin? This is an interesting problem also for other projects which use a plugin system and libdbi. > 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). > Unfortunately there is only rare and irregular feedback on the non-core drivers. However, as "insert" statements are a prerequisite to do anything useful with a driver, I'd suspect that these should work ok. As for the database engines you mentioned, Ingres is the one that was added last. I assume it supports basic functionality. Oracle has been around a little longer, and there have been some bug reports and patches in the past, so I'd also say it is going to work. I can't recall any feedback about mSQL though, and I'm not sure if anyone on this list is currently using it. As a rule of thumb you may want to steer your users towards the core drivers (firebird, mysql, pgsql, sqlite, sqlite3) and leave the other drivers as an option that will require some end-user testing. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
