Forum OpenACS Q&A: Internal AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6

1: Internal AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6

Posted by David Bowyer on 09/05/00 09:40 AM

For my own enjoyment I am in the middle of writing an Internal
AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6. The first platform will be
Windows, but I hope the driver will port to Linux with very little
additional effort.

Particular areas I hope to address include:

* Performance

* Thread safety

* Error handling

* Support for the Interbase v6 datatypes (DATE + TIME)

* Support for Interbase v6 dialects

* Support for different character sets

* Stored procedures

* Blobs

* Test scripts

* ADP examples

* Documentation

It is currently going well, and I expect an early beta to be available
by the end of September.

David

2: Response to Internal AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6 (response to 1)

Posted by Adam Farkas on 09/05/00 02:56 PM

Before we get too much duplication of effort on the InterBase front, you might want to e-mail sebastian (mailto:sebastian@arsdigita.com), who has also been working full-time on an InterBase driver. Perhaps attacking this problem from multiple points will help. thx

3: Response to Internal AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6 (response to 1)

Posted by Sebastian Skracic on 09/05/00 09:20 PM

I'm improving existing external driver - so far I managed to implement
parametrized queries, BLOB support and v6 datatypes (DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, 64-bit integers). I'm not sure whether it should support pre-v6 SQL dialects, though. My current reasoning is that we should move on with open-source releases (and that means 6.0 and later) ...

I'll put it public very soon, after I wrap things up.

Feel free to email me directly (or just post here) if you have some
suggestions/comments/questions/answers ...

Having choice between internal and external driver seems very cool 😊

4: Re: Response to Internal AOLServer Driver for Interbase v6 (response to 3)

Posted by Rajaram K on 12/16/04 01:00 PM

I have a job to migrate from Interbase v7.1 to v6.0 for reasons best known, in my project. Can you let me know the limitations/bottlenecks likely to be encountered in this ? I would appreciate a lot if you can mail your reply to mailto:kameshwari123@yahoo.com

Thanks a lot
Rajaram