From: Jim Starkey
Date: December 18 2008 11:06pm
Subject: Re: [Drizzle-discuss] dropping databases
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Brian Aker wrote:
> Hi!
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Jim Starkey wrote:
>
>> Now, all that said, I wish each engine had a directory under the 
>> datadir to avoid cross engine confusion.  I regret that it is 
>> probably too late to introduce this now.
>
>
> Not for us :)
>
> Stewart is working out what to pass engines for discovery. Right now I 
> believe the current plans were to pass database and tablename... aka 
> no longer pass in "directory path"
>
> So it should now be viable for an engine to decide to keep its files 
> to itself.
>

Hurray!  Hurray!  Sanity prevails!

Has anyone given any deep thought to the database / schema issue?  In 
MySQL, schema is a synonym for database (I presume for a checkmark on 
somebody's database comparison grid).   It would be nice to know what 
semantics attach to database, what semantics attach to a schema, and, 
maybe, recognize that they aren't two names for the same thing.

Or is this asking for too much?


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Jim Starkey
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