On Mar 20, 2007, at 3:27 PM, John Siracusa wrote: > Well then code it up and send it to me :)
ok. its on my list right after the debugger module :) > That level abstraction is > not strictly necessary to support the proposed feature (columns that > are not part of the PK but that have default values pulled from > sequences), but it might be useful nonetheless. right -- but if you're handling a large db with a lot of inter- related tables, being able to access sequences directly is really helpful. >> getting that to work with all dbs might be a pain though. > > Not really. If you decide to do it, you'd delegate all db-specific > functionality to the "db" (Rose::DB) object. As mentioned earlier in > this thread, there's already a vaguely cross-db-compatible > next_value_in_sequence() method in Rose::DB. You'd just have to add > more such methods. The Rose::DB::Sequence class wouldn't have any > db-specific code in it at all. well yes, but there would need to be a lot of conditionals in that module / the db specific drivers to implement the operations. i'll still have to write them somewhere. // Jonathan Vanasco | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | SyndiClick.com | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | FindMeOn.com - The cure for Multiple Web Personality Disorder | Web Identity Management and 3D Social Networking | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | RoadSound.com - Tools For Bands, Stuff For Fans | Collaborative Online Management And Syndication Tools | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object