[Seaside] [Roe] Some questions

[Lukas Renggli]

Hi Avi,

we had a look at Roe and we think it perfectly fits our need to work 
with huge amounts of PostgreSQL data from within Squeak.

Our current configuration consists of Squeak 3.5 and PostgreSQL Client 
0.9 (and - of course - Seaside). We downloaded Roe from Sourceforge, 
but are unsure if this is the latest version available? We did not find 
any documentation, so is it right that there is noting available yet?

All the test cases ran well, except for 
RATestPostgresSemantics>>testStudentIndex where we get a strange 
failure, that we do not really understand: "Unable to identify an 
operator '=' for types 'text' and 'integer'." Is there already a 
bug-fix known for that  problem?

As far as we could see there is no deep support to insert, update and 
remove entries with automatically generated keys yet. Also the the 
management of the tables itself (creating, dropping) has to be done 
directly using the PostgreSQL client. Is that correct?

Probably we will come up with some extensions (we just add them, as we 
need them) to Roe and will post them soon in the Seaside mailing list 
:-)

Why don't you put that framework on SqueakMap, it looks really great 
and makes working with a relational-db much more enjoyable?

Cheers
Lukas, Adrian

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Lukas Renggli
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