16 Jan
2006
16 Jan
'06
11:33 a.m.
Maciej Sobczak wrote:
2. A plug-in architecture for backends, which allows to target various database engines by simply linking with the chosen backend. Currently, the following database engines are supported (through their respective "native" interface):
The library looks very nice, and I might spend more time with it in the near future. I have one main question: what, if any, are the facilities of SOCI to hide database-specific details, or how could the current design accommodate such facilities? For example, if I were to write a MySQL backend, there are several differences in regards to datatypes from Oracle and the relatively easy portable PostgreSQL. Sebastian Redl