Re: Perl4caml packaged
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:24:30AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:08:53PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:33:38AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > > FWIW there are debian/ files in the savannah.nongnu.org CVS tree for
> > > > ocamldbi and mod_caml here:
> > >
> > > Sweet. ocamldbi is going to be my next ITP. That's why I packaged up
> > > perl4caml, in fact :-)
> > >
> > > BTW: it would be really, really cool to see ocamldbi support ocamlodbc
> > > as a database driver. Think it could happen? :-)
> >
> > Sure ... anything could happen! Unfortunately however my one brush
> > with ODBC - namely trying to get StarOffice on Linux to talk to a
> > PostgreSQL server - didn't go very well, so I haven't really worked
> > ODBC out.
>
> The OCaml ODBC interface is very simple. Too simple, in fact.
> Basically, it will let you load up the entire result of a query into
> RAM, optionally with column metadata. Then you just iterate over it.
>
> There are only about 5 functions defined there.
That's good. PostgreSQL works the same way (w.r.t. loading all the
results into RAM at once). I'll have a look at it anyway. Someone
else was asking about this on ocaml-beginners so maybe he'll pay me to
do it (:-)
Rich.
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