[Dbix-class] RFC: Database capabilities

Jess Robinson castaway at desert-island.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 1 11:09:40 CEST 2006



On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Matt S Trout wrote:

> What things *haven't* you been able to get DBIC to do with your database that
> you'd like to be able to? The main things I'd kill for are -
>
> Sub-select support
> EXISTS and NOT EXISTS (which needs sub-selects really :)
> An easy way to make a resultset into a "virtual view" - i.e. a resultsource
> which can then be caused to put itself into a FROM clause
> Complete and working deploy, and incremental deploy
> More complex join conditions
>
> Now, (1) I'd like to know what else should be on that list, (2) I'd like to
> know which of these are seen as most important by the user base. Get your
> thinking hats on and reply here.
>

I'll take a helping of better join conditions, and some subselects 
please..

UNION ALL might be nice too.

I can't really think of any db features we've missed, otherwise ;)

Jess




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