Re: ADTs and embedded sql

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > Ah, I see --- more or less make all of utils/adt/ available to be
> > linked into clients.
> > > That is a Good Idea in principle. In practice, ...
> > Yeah, it'd be a huge amount of work.  For starters, all that code
> > relies on the backend environment for error handling and memory
> > management...
> 
> It would be a large amount of work to make *all* of utils/adt available.
> However, the initial work would be to support I/O to get values
> converted to internal storage. Michael M. already has to do some of this
> for ecpg, and presumably we could do this for more types (or maybe *all*
> builtin types are already supported in this way by ecpg, in which case
> MM has already done all of the hard work, and we might just repackage
> it).
> 
> A first cut would seem to be appropriate, if someone would like to pick
> up the work. Tony?? ;)

I'd love to get involved in this, BUT... no time at the moment, although
if I get a really good Masters student  next semester - I could always
do this as their project. If this is still a requirement in about 3
months then I can set someone on to it.

Tony

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