[Zope-dev] ODBC to the ZODB?

[Richard Jones]

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2003 21:32, Richard Jones wrote:
>> Has anyone done any work or even had any ideas about having ODBC 
>> access
>> to the ZODB? Possibly using gadfly as the SQL engine?
>>
>> This would be incredibly powerful to have...
>
> I started a long time back something called the ZOQL, which aimed at 
> making
> relational like queries to the ZODB; however, I found that SQL is not
> applicable to the ZODB.

Gadfly already provides the relational queries with arbitrary (well, 
organised) data behind it. You write a class that supports gadfly's 
table interface and have any code you like behind it. It's really quite 
neat :) There's just no ODBC interface in front of it ;)


     Richard