Re: PgAccess directory structure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PgAccess directory structure
Date: 2002-05-12 15:52:09
Message-ID: 29968.1021218729@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Keeping a separate file for each version may lead to a lot of duplicate
> code being necessary and hard to maintain.

Peter has a good point: you'll almost certainly end up with lots of
duplicate code to maintain if you try to split at the file level.
"If"s seem to work well enough in pg_dump.

Another potential objection to the scheme as you proposed it is that
any given instance of pgaccess could only talk to one backend version.
I dunno whether pgaccess supports multiple connections now or might
do so in the future --- but if that's of interest, adapting to backend
version on-the-fly is a lot better than loading different versions of
support code at startup.

regards, tom lane

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