On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> BTW if we are adding an SQL lookup method would there be an advantage
> in making this method layer over any one of a number of possible DB
> drivers, so we don't end up with another driver almost the same for
> postgressql, msql, oracle etc...
Each one is relatively small; the LDAP source is only 14K and MYSQL
currently 6K (though it will grow when I add connection caching, but not
by much). Any given binary will be compiled with only the one it needs,
so there's no impact on anybody else. I think adding the apparatus for a
general driver will probably not save much, if anything, because these
things are already below the general "query-lookup" interface.
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