Re: autogenerating has_a and has_many from foreign keys

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>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Bowden <tony-cdbitalk@xxxxx.xxx> writes:

Tony> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:46:21AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Tony> Are you planning to release any of this to CPAN?
>> I would like to, but I'm not quite sure how much of it needs to be
>> pluggable, or whether any part of it will work on anything other than
>> postgresql.

Tony> I think it's always going to need to be database specific. Sure, there are
Tony> things that can be abstracted slightly at the top level where subclasses
Tony> could override or hook in, but that could always be factored out later.

Tony> Just having it as a Pg specific thing is probably useful enough to
Tony> start with, and should hopefully provoke other people to add/create the
Tony> equivalents for DBs that support such.

Well, other than the weird inheritance stuff, which I could have
handled as a callback because it's my problem, not the database
problem, there's nothing Pg specific in the code.  The ->foreign_keys
method is a standard DBI thing.  And CDBI::Loader is already smart
enough to vary its behavior based on the database type too.

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