Hi all. This list seems to be quite dead as of late; maybe (hopefully) this will spark. Basically I'm trying to extract the actual SQL queries that Metabase ...
jason
jason@...
Nov 13, 2001 3:21 am
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Hello, ... There are 128 subscribers. Maybe there not many doubts about Metabase to discuss about it. ... I'm afraid that capability would have to be embedded...
Hello, This is of the interest of other Metabase developers ... Yes, drivers that support SummaryFunctions support those ... I have never needed such functions...
Hi, I guess its time I write directly to the metabase mailinglist. My name is Lukas Smith and I am the co-founder of DybNet GbR a small but growing company...
Hello, ... Great, I am glad that you thought rationallly on joining in instead of competing like other database abstraction packages developers insist on ...
Hi, I am just wondering how the other users feel about the fairly long function names I don’t have anything against verbose function names … but especially...
Hello, ... Are you suggesting that there could be two (or maybe more) metabase_interface.php files with different function name prefixes so users can choose? ...
Well that was just a suggestion to making it easier for people to migrate. We will write our own metabase_interface.php with shorter function names (we are...
Hello, ... Some Metabase drivers call the functions prefixed with Metabase name. To make your suggestion work either the Metabase prefixed functions are always...
... marks ... should ... so ... well mysql can actually deal with quotes .. and we have used them ... I just have trhis security concern with non quoted stuff...
... Same here, PostgreSql supports quoted integers as well and I like to qoute them for the same reasons. -- Meir Kriheli...
Meir Kriheli
mksoft@...
Nov 22, 2001 9:19 pm
379
I therefore suggest adding a MetabaseGetIntegerFieldValue that uses quotes where allowed and otherwise ensures that there is no malicious code hidden inside...
Hello, ... What I meant is that there is not DBMS that requires numbers to be quoted. ... Yes, but when you quote it will issue an error because it would still...
... Hi, While I use quoted integers in some cases, I don't think this should be done at the expense of the current functions. This feature is quite exotic....
Meir Kriheli
mksoft@...
Nov 23, 2001 9:19 am
382
Well you are always free to not run the integer through that function .. Lukas Smith smith@... _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions...
... But it'll have to be parsed by php. As we add more functions the burden will increase. As more and more functions are added so the overhead of Metabase....
Meir Kriheli
mksoft@...
Nov 23, 2001 1:35 pm
384
True ... I will take a look at this layer since something similar may be required for DB specific syntax to functions such as SUBSTR() Lukas Smith ...
Hello, ... This is very true. ... Yes, BinaryCloud people wanted to embed field encryption as part of Metabase core functionality. That is not really the focus...
Yes I think this function should be included in the main class as this is a very important feature from my perspective to ensure security on a very basic level...
Hello, ... Ok, but my previous question was not answered. What such function would do? strval(intval($value)) so the returned string would be a valid integer,...
... would ... it? Actually I don't know ... I have made this Wednesday metabase hardcore development day .. hope we will find a good answer then One thing...
Hello, ... Ok, if nothing else is proposed, I suggest that the default implementation in the base class is to do something like strval(intval($value)) and then...
Hello. ... Yes, that has been planned for a while. ... I am not aware of that extension. ... You may make PEAR-DB interface with Metabase right away as it is...
Hello, ... Ok, I don't have much time right away because I am working full time on the development of MetaL at least until the end of the year. That doesn't...
Hi, a couple of questions concering table queries is there a way to set things like primary keys? “This may change when Metabase supports primary keys...
Hello, ... Before anybody misunderstands anything, for the record, I do not intend the current to drop Metabase API. There is people with large applications...
Hello, ... Metabase does not have any query caching support deliberately. I do not want to bloat Metabase with something that is not necessary to be part of...
Hello, ... Great. It would be also interesting if you could start submitting whatever you have to support fetching whole rows or result sets, so I could write...
Hello, Small request: can you please not use HTML to send your messages to me or the list? It is that it crashes Netscape when I try to answer them converting...