[PEAK] bulletins example OF DOOM, revisited

Stephen Waterbury golux at comcast.net
Thu Apr 15 00:19:58 EDT 2004


Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> [PostgreSQL API is] case-insensitive but not case-preserving.  Oracle does the same 
> thing, only it "smushes" them to upper case.  I don't really have any 
> good solution available for peak.storage at the low level; I expect it 
> to be resolved by peak.query which will handle SQL generation and result 
> translations.  At the moment, peak.storage is only slightly higher-level 
> than the DBAPI.

Ah, that makes sense -- so bulletins should implement a
peak.query interface to handle the mappings I referred to
(e.g. 'loginId' <-> 'login_id', etc.), right?

... meanwhile I'm re-reading the discussions of datamanagers
like TableDM, etc., on the PEAK list.  :)



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