squeak to meet databases

lex at cc.gatech.edu lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Aug 7 15:06:31 UTC 2004


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> The right thing to do would be to write a plugin that either used an 
> async interface to ODBC (I can't imagine it doesn't provide one), or in 
> the worst case spawns a separate thread for each query.

Good point on needing to support multiple queries at a time.

But is it clear you can't do this with FFI?  If ODBC provides a way
to do async queries without using callbacks, then it should work fine.

It seems worth looking into....  Isn't ODBC the OpenGL of databases?



-Lex



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