I was afraid of that...it would be cool if someone created a sqlite
server which
handled the networking and serialization...I would take a crack at it
myself but
right now I don't have time.
Dan Kennedy wrote:
I had a musing while reading:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6063599.html?part=rss&tag=6063599&subj=news
where it reminded me of one of MySQL's features:
MySQL's database is built so that it can use a range of different
storage mechanisms, tuned for different purposes, such as
transactions or indexing large amounts of text.
"Rather than have one perfect engine, it's better to have a
pluggable architecture," Urlocker said. "The idea is you can mix and
match within a single application because data will be used in
different ways."
Perhaps adding the appropriate bindings to MySQL to register sqlite as a
storage mechanism would
allow the use of Sqlite in a network environment with out bloating the
core Sqlite code?
Maybe the above makes no sense, but I find the notion appealing that
Sqlite could remain as tight little sql engine but could use the
"network server"
of MySQL should ever such a thing be needed.
Would that be possible?
It's possible. But the mysql interface is looking for something more
like the sqlite btree layer - you would be effectively bypassing the
sqlite schema layer entirely and just using sqlite as a simple
key-value database (like berkeley db). I think it would be extremely
tricky to make the sqlite schema visible to the mysql client.
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