On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:26:08AM +0100, Gorjan Todorovski wrote:
>
> To Ed: Why be so negative about adding new features to the DB
> server? Why not make things easier and make the DB more flexible by
> supporting more standards for TRANSPORTING data.
I'm not Ed, but...
The answer is simple: it doesn't belong as a core service in the
database server [in the opinions of several folks, including Ed].
As an add-on tool, sure. If someone writes a tool which turns MySQL
data into some XML format on the fly, great. Or maybe the logic can be
integrated into the client libraries. But I really don't think that
the mysqld process show know how to do it.
Then again, it wouldn't be HARD to do. I just hope then if it happens,
it is a compile-time default so that I can disable it on my
servers. :-)
Jeremy
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