[squeak-dev] Re: Threaded ODBC

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Sat May 10 18:48:37 UTC 2008


2008/5/10 Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 20:06:22 +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/10 Rob Rothwell wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if anyone knew what work would be required to
>>> provide a
>>> threaded ODBC connection in Squeak similar to what is available for
>>> VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X.  The ability to not freeze the VM while
>>> running
>>> a query would be very useful for me, but I don't even know where to
>>> start.
>>>
>>> Or, is it a bigger issue than just ODBC, something buried deep within the
>>> VM
>>> and/or the FFI?
>>>
>>
>> Someone could make a plugin, which will call ODBC from separate native
>> thread, without blocking VM thread and blocking only  caller Process.
>> It can be even me :)
>>
>> Also see an GSoC OpenDBX project, not taken by anyone, but i seen
>> someone recently started to code initial bindings to it.
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6036
>> Who is it? Please raise the hand! :)
>
> Did you mean
>
> - http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakDBX.html
>

Yes.
It is likely, that i will need to use DB connection with MS-Sql and
MySql servers from squeak, so i'm interested in progress of this as
well.



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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