[Zope3-dev] RDBMS service type id

Jim Fulton jim@zope.com
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:31:52 -0500


Steve Alexander wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Albertas Agejevas wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The service type id for the RDBMS connections service ("Connections")
>> > does not seem to clear to me.  I suggest renaming it to "DBAPI".
>> > After all, this service instanciates DBAPI2 connections.  The second
>> > variant would be "RDBMS" or "RDBConnections".  Any strong opinions?
>>
>>
>> I vote for SQLDatabaseConnections
> 
> 
> Are they always accessed using SQL? If so, +1

Their only clients are sql methods.

> 
>>  or RDBConnections.
> 
> 
> Are they always based on relational schemata? If so, +1

To my knowledge, there are only database adapters for relational
databases.  Theoretically, you could have SQL interfaces to non-relational
databases.

Jim

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