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Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 10:10:16 +0200
From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
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Subject: Re: OO PostgreSQL Driver
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Mike Ellsworth wrote:
> I will donate $1,000, specifically for this driver.
> 
> If it requires more ... then ideally someone else should pick up the diff.
> 
> I'll send the check today if I get a confirm that the $ will be directed
> specifically at this need.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On Friday 19 May 2006 11:22 am, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>   
>>>> Other projects need even more intensive coding help.  OpenOffice, for
>>>> example, doesn't offer the Postgres driver by default because it's still
>>>> too buggy. That would be solvable with money, but $1000 to $2000, not
>>>> $50.
>>>>       
>>> Does it really need one since it supports JDBC and ODBC?

actually JDBC, ODBC and even that SDBC driver available
for OO and postgres work quite well - however for some
reason OO wants to parse the SQL expression with its own
naive SQL parser befor anything gets sent to the database.
So in the end beside some simple select foo from bartable
there is not much you can do with it. (JOIN? Group by?
function call? Forget it ;)

So I think not only the driver (and the bundling) but
overall support of SQL and specifiacally some dialect
specifics of postgres should come in.

Regards
Tino Wildenhain