On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Adrian J Bool wrote:
> We use both Oracle & MySQL here for differenet purposes, and it would be
> nice to have access to both in the same exim config.
Yes, I thought of this one just after I hit the "send" button to reply
to Nigel's message.
> > mysql_servers= host1/user1/pass1/db1 : host2/user2/pass2/db2 : ...
>
> my_mysql_database:
> driver = mysql
> host = host1/user1/pass1/db1
> host = host2/user2/pass2/db2
>
> my_oracle_databse:
> driver = oracle
> host = host2/user1/pass1/db1
> host = host3/user2/pass2/db2
> Does that fit in at all with exim internally?
No, that is an entirely new kind of configuration entity. Using a single
colon-separated string, in the way I suggested, fits in with current
practice. If/when oracle support is added, you would get a new option
called oracle_servers with its own list of server data.
--
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