[Gllug] MySQL Woes

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Harry <HJackson at colt-telecom.com> said:

> I am trying to create an application that can be used with any 
> database....

Why? 'I want to' is an acceptable answer, but there's a danger that
you'll scupper your development by setting goals that are too difficult
for one person to achieve on a planet with mere 24 hour days....

Could you not design the application in such a way that the database
connections are deliberately abstracted from the rest of the application
but speed initial development by sticking with one database - if you
choose Postgres and someone then wants to bolt on mySQL support, you
then tell them what requests the application will make to their
interface layer, and they have to figure out how to implement this
communication with the database.

Wulf



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