[Zope-dev] determining database manager type from z database connection?

[Andreas Heckel]

Kent Polk wrote:
> 
> Is there a generic way to determine what 'brand' of database manager
> a Zope database connection is connected to by interrogating the
> connection object?

<dtml-in SQLConnectionIDs>
<b>ID:</b><dtml-var sequence-key> 
<b>title:</b><dtml-var "_.getitem(_['sequence-item']).title"> 
<b>type:</b><dtml-var "_.getitem(_['sequence-item']).database_type">
<br>
</dtml-in>

database_type is the 'brand' of the Zope DA. If you are connectet to a 
PostgreSQL DB using ZPyGreSQLDA you get 'PyGreSQL'. Using ZPoPyDA it
returns 'PoPy'. That's not exactly what you are looking for but I hope
it helps.

Andreas

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