[Dbix-class] Calling all database champions

[John Napiorkowski]

--- Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:48:59AM -0700, John
> Napiorkowski wrote:
> > > Peopl who champion a specific DB engine, how
> would
> > > this work for you?
> > > 
> > > I'm getting increasingly tempted to just sod it
> and
> > > apply jason's patch
> > > when he sends out a test case or two for it and
> > > we'll see what happens.
> > 
> > They do need tweaks to the timedate
> > inflation/deflation but I usually do it by hand
> and
> > not rely on the standard timedate inflators.
> > 
> > I thought about offering a patch for this but to
> be
> > honest it seems like it would get messy to have
> each
> > inflator/deflator have to deal with each and every
> > database issue.  seems like something that should
> go
> > into storage.
> 
> Err. the $storage->datetime_parser thing was left
> deliberately vague so
> you could subclass the DateTime::Format:: module as
> required (or just send
> patches upstream).
> 
> Maybe you could have a go at implementing an API for
> that that other
> databases can follow?

Okay, I have some stuff I want to work on for
Postgresql, including some support of array and other
datatypes, but I'll have to wait for the next cycle I
think since it's a lot to do.

Thanks,
John

> 
> > I don't know who the Postgresql champion is, but
> if
> > you don't have one I'll volunteer.
> 
> So far as I was concerned you pretty much already
> did; there's no formal
> positions anyway.
> 
> Basically, some people seem to deal primarily with
> issues specific to a
> particular database; sticking something in the
> subject line that hints at
> wanting that sort of person to reply seems to work
> for getting them to
> respond.
> 
> That's about as far as it exists :)
>  
> > My 2 cents is I don't object to the patch
> mentioned
> > since most of the time it does what you want,
> unless
> > you are doing fancy stuff with multiple timezones
> in
> > the database.  I typically normalize to GMT and
> then
> > set a TZ offset as a table attribute for when I
> need
> > to manage users or stuff in different timezones.
> 
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