Le mercredi 04 mars 2020 à 16:06 +0000, Paul A Bristow via Boost a écrit :
It seems a no-brainer to me that a well maintained means of efficiently doing so would be a positive addition to boost.
By itself, this is a reasonably convincing case, but what would quiet some of doubters would be to have at least an outline of connecting to another database. Showing reasonable confidence that extension to other databases is feasible would be a big plus IMO.
I expect a more versatile db library to rely on underlying low-level backends such as this one, so i tend to disagree here: trying to handle multiple database here will greatly increase complexity with few additional value for the user: differences in SQL dialects and supported types, for example, will anyway prevent any simple backend switch for the user. Having a common shared design for the different backends, however, will indeed be useful in building a higher level db abstraction, though (not sure if it was your point). Regards, Julien