Re: Patched MySQL plugin
Re: Patched MySQL plugin
- Subject: Re: Patched MySQL plugin
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:02:16 -0400
Le 2010-09-30 à 14:36, Chuck Hill a écrit :
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> On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Simon wrote:
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>>> Calendar dates should not be represented by NSTimestamp. The Date prototype is wrong for using it IMHO.
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>> i couldn't agree more. but where do we go from here ?
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>> 1) leave the mysql date prototype as it is now, broken and unusable
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> If it is broken, then either no one is using it, or they are using it in a way that your change would break.
We should have unit tests for testing things like that, on most popular databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, FrontBase, H2 and Oracle DB Express).
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>> 2) patch the mysql date prototype so that it works properly, but still
>> mapped to NSTimestamp so that we don't break everyone in the world who
>> is using it as an NSTimestamp
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>> 3) change the mysql date prototype completely (i'm a fan of plain old
>> int's) and put up with the flack from the people we break!
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>> 4) alternatively i guess we could just add a new mysql prototype (e.g.
>> intDate) .... ?
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> Why ints? If we are going to do that, why not find a Java class that gives us what we really want? Or, uh, what we think we want.
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