''This is one of the [Project Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2009%|%GSoC 2009 Projects%|%].''
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''[[from http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/tcltk/t124025109884]]''
   '''Student Name''':   [Sławomir Cygan]
   '''Mentor Name''':   [Kevin Kenny]
   '''Title''':   TDBC Driver Development
'''Abstract'''
    :   I'm going to improve the [TDBC] driver code to make it more versatile by: 
   ** 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 http://wiewior.eu.org/cgi-bin/tdbc-fossil.cgi%|%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. 


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'''Discussion and comments'''

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

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