[mythtv] add support for SQLite?
James Chapman
jchapman at katalix.com
Mon Mar 5 17:05:56 UTC 2007
Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/05/2007 09:33 AM, James Chapman wrote:
>> Isaac Richards wrote:
>> > James Chapman wrote:
>>
>>>> Anyways, the reason for my original post was to find out if anyone was
>>>> already working on SQLite so as to avoid doing duplicate work. It seems
>>>> no. So I'll go away and develop a patch.
>>>>
>>> We don't really want to have to support multiple database types. It's quite a
>>> bit of extra work. I _would_ like to switch to embedded mysql - that should
>>> get us most of the largest benefits of moving to sqlite without the added
>>> pain of reworking large amounts of code.
>>>
>> Rework large amounts of code? Wouldn't all of this be handled by the Qt
>> SQL abstraction? I was thinking none of the SQL code of MythTV would
>> need to be changed, unless perhaps an obscure SQL feature was being
>> used. Maybe I'm missing something?
>
> There are a lot of MySQL-specific things in there.
Do you have examples, Mike?
I look at SQLite as a _potential_ drop in replacement (configured at
compile time) for MySQL. Maybe I'm being naive. :) If lots of existing
SQL clauses have to be conditionally compiled for SQLite then I'll
abandon the SQLite idea.
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James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
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