Dear all,

I am looking at available database abstraction layers with the idea of 
porting pgAdmin2 to Linux. This is just for information, my project is not 
clear by now.

GnomeDB (http://www.gnome-db.org) seems quite fantastic when used in 
conjunction with Glade. Until now, I never heard of any abstraction layer 
under KDE. Is there any?

By the way, I looked at KDE TOra, which seems very Oracle centric. TOra seems 
to be built upon database wrappers, not abstraction layer classes. Am I wrong?

What is the best database abstraction under Linux ? Any idea, suggestion, 
etc.. are welcome. 

Best regards,
Jean-Michel POURE

Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:23:15 +0100
Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf.fr>
Database abstration layers
> GnomeDB (http://www.gnome-db.org) seems quite fantastic when used in
> conjunction with Glade. Until now, I never heard of any abstraction layer
> under KDE. Is there any?

QT3, which KDE3 uses, has database objects with postgresql support...

Chris



Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:09:16 +0800 (WST)
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Re: Database abstration layers
Jean-Michel POURE writes:

> Until now, I never heard of any abstraction layer under KDE. Is there
> any?

It's built into Qt.

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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:13:22 -0500 (EST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Database abstration layers
Le Vendredi 8 Fï¿½vrier 2002 18:13, Peter Eisentraut a ï¿½crit :
> >ï¿½Until now, I never heard of any abstraction layer under KDE. Is there
> >ï¿½any?
>
> It's built into Qt.

I am looking for an abstraction layer which gives access to all database 
objects (tables, views, triggers, functions, rules). As far as I know, 
Gnome-db and libgda provide shuch a framework.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE

Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:12:09 +0100
Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf.fr>
Re: Database abstration layers
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> Dear all,
>
> I am looking at available database abstraction layers with the idea of
> porting pgAdmin2 to Linux. This is just for information, my project is not
> clear by now.

what is your goal?  

If it's to port pgAdmin2 to Linux, then why do you need a database 
abstraction layer?  Why not use direct calls to postgres?  Most language have 
native support (C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl...)   Is it not true that pgAdmin 
under windows has some limitations due to the fact that it's usind ODBC?

If it's to write a generic database management tool that can be used against 
different databases then the need for an abstraction layer is obvious.
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 13:09:56 -0600
"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
Re: Database abstration layers
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 05:23, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am looking at available database abstraction layers with the idea of 
> porting pgAdmin2 to Linux. This is just for information, my project is not 
> clear by now.
> 
> GnomeDB (http://www.gnome-db.org) seems quite fantastic when used in 
> conjunction with Glade. Until now, I never heard of any abstraction layer 
> under KDE. Is there any?
> 
> By the way, I looked at KDE TOra, which seems very Oracle centric. TOra seems 
> to be built upon database wrappers, not abstraction layer classes. Am I wrong?
> 
> What is the best database abstraction under Linux ? Any idea, suggestion, 
> etc.. are welcome. 

Since pgAdmin2 already uses ODBC, would it not be best to leave that
alone and just use ODBC in a Linux port as well?

The ODBC in pgAdmin2 is a good help in porting to PostgreSQL from other
databases, but no doubt it has it's drawbacks.  On the other hand if it
is already existing, and should work 'as-is' then perhaps it would save
a lot of work to leave it alone.

Regards,
					Andrew.
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09 Feb 2002 14:10:23 +1300
Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
Re: Database abstration layers