Version 8 of TDBC Driver Development

This is one of the GSoC 2009 Projects.

Abstract

- Implementing new drivers and adapters to existing interfaces
- Embedding other connectivity projects under TDBC and using it as a slave below others.

Aims of project

PostgreSQL driver. This will be completely new driver, but very similar to existing MySQL one. It will be utilising libpq library and will be coded 99% in pure C.
Oracle driver. As some people expressed they need for such a driver, it was also included in my schedule. This caused some activites to be marked as "secondary", and leaved only in case of resignation from Oracle driver.
Secondary activities - they wre planned to provide a concept of running TDBC over existing database connectivity interface - nsdbi.

Timeline and progress

Date	Milestone completed	Status
27.06	Research on TDBC and existing TDBC drivers	Done
31.06	Research on Postgre libpq interface	Done
05.07	Postgres driver: conenction to the driver	Done
08.07	Postgres driver: prepared statements	Done
11.07	Postgres driver: retreiving results from the statemets	Working on
17.07	Postgres driver: tests, increasing functionality (isolation and others)	Working on
20.07	Postgres driver: finished, documented	-
23.07	Oracle driver: getting in touch	-
04.08	Oracle driver: partial functionality working	-
11.08	Oracle driver or Secondary activities: Finished and Documented	-
18.08	Documentation, finishing unfinished	-

Project related code and resources

The PostgreSQL TDBC driver is currently unfinished and still unusable, but the TDBC code including this driver is already avaliable here (it's a Fossil repository). You shouldn't need anything special to compile this driver: just installed PostgreSQL database (client at least) and "pg_config" utility (reporting sane variables) somewhere in path.

Discussion and comments

RLH I will be very excited to watch the Oracle development happen.

Category Database