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

[Kent Polk]

On 3 May 2001 21:15:01 -0500, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> 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.

Actually, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks Much!