From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2efc07c562a92932 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & Postgresql Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:34:17 +0200 Organization: cbb-software GmbH Message-ID: <1l9bx9zwcrmr0$.peq9vrtvmcmy.dlg@40tude.net> References: <2prmojFo9eo1U1@uni-berlin.de> <2q2m4sFqobhgU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Dr7HVhRqRznGbWcv5okBNwIR/MIVpA1gisb4FPpjMeA+Nb+6M= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3366 Date: 2004-09-06T13:34:17+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:42:27 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > I find the thin ODBC binding a bit frustrating (being thin). Yep. I had to wrap them into controlled objects when used them. Also ODBC itself is a nightmare. It customary uses null pointers as valid values and when GNADE has an anonymous access parameter for that, then, well, you have a problem. Yet it works. > Are there > plans in Gnade to build a simpler thick interface over it? (Maybe ADBC > was in this line, but someone said it was discontinued). Pity if it is so. For many projects ADBC could be a decisive advantage (of Ada). Our customers for instance never want to be bound to a concrete DBMS. So the choice is between bad (ODBC) and worse (raw SQL). -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de