[storm] using odbc as a backend

[Martin DeMello]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:09 AM, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:
>
> Note that there is database specific code for all three currently
> supported databases, so it is very unlikely that a new backend could
> be done without similar work.
>
> This also means that a generic "pyodbc" backend is not on the cards:
> it would depend on what database is actually being talked to.
>
> It probably wouldn't be a huge effort to support PostgreSQL or MySQL
> through pyodbc, but I'd guess that isn't what Martin is after.

I was hoping that the various database's ODBC drivers would take care
of the database-specific stuff, and allow storm to access a common
API, as long as I didn't want to do anything too funky (just need
simple inserts, selects, updates and deletes, for the most part).

martin