[Xastir] Re: MySQL/PostgreSQL Discussion

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Gerry Creager wrote:

> Of 
> course, we could be really generic, retain only recognized generic SQL 
> statements, and then have a config switch the user sets for deciding how 
> to connect to said database, but that's starting to get a little 
> far-fetched:-)

Not _that_ far-fetched.  We'd have to do double the work on some
things, like stored procedures, triggers, etc, that we might need for
each type of database.


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