[Zope3-Users] Re: Zope 3 Capacities

[David Johnson]

So if one wants to replace ZODB with something like MySQL where would one
look?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Richter [mailto:srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:37 AM
> To: zope3-users at zope.org
> Cc: David Johnson; jim at zope.com; 'Jeff Rush'
> Subject: Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: Zope 3 Capacities
> 
> On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:11, David Johnson wrote:
> > I think we will probably proceed on trying to make a MySQL adapter that
> can
> > replace GadFly -- hopefully possible and not TOO much work.  I think
> that
> > and a better SQL container (maybe sqlos) would solve our issues, as well
> as
> > be a great benefit to Zope.
> 
> What are you talking about? Gadfly is not meant to be used in production
> ever;
> it's a toy RDB system with SQL support built in Python. It is a sample RDB
> that we provide to test our RDB framework.
> 
> Zope 3 has a MySQL and PostGreSQL adapter that are at least somewhat
> maintained:
> 
> http://svn.zope.org/mysqldbda/trunk/
> http://svn.zope.org/psycopgda/trunk/
> 
> Note that the ZODB does *not* use those adapters to store data. Packages
> like
> sqlos (as you mentioned) are used to hook into the Zope 3 to provide
> objects
> that are populated from RDB data rows.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan
> --
> Stephan Richter
> CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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