Re: [Bacula-devel] libdbi backend to catalog database

["João Henrique Freitas" <joaohf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for explanations.

I will think more about this and do some explorations.

Thanks

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:02:59PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>  > I think you should add a new configure option:
>  >
>  >   --with-dbi-driver=xxx
>  >
>  > this will be a bit complicated, because you will need to check if xxx is one
>  > of our supported databases, then find the path to the program so that it can
>  > be properly put into the scripts so that the tables will be created.
>  > You need to set two variables for substitution:
>  >
>  >    SQL_BINDIR       points to directory where binary program resides
>  >    DB_TYPE           the name of the binary program (e.g. pgres, mysql, ...)
>  >
>  > Once you have defined those two substitution variables in configure.in,
>  > everything should work correctly.
>
>  But then we loose part the flexibility which dbi gives us otherwise. I
>  always hated that database backend of bacula was configured
>  compile-time. This way it was impossible to create generic binary
>  packages with Bacula. So in the PLD (Linux distribution I make some packages
>  for) we provide binary bacula packages with sqlite support (the worst
>  backend, but with the least extra requirements like a server set up) and
>  if anyone wanted something else he had to compile the packages manually
>  with special options.
>
>  So, I was very happy when read about the DBI support. That would solve
>  the last Bacula problem bothering me. But the suggestion above would
>  break the thing again.
>
>  IMHO it should be possible to compile Bacula in a such way so it could
>  work with any database, depending only on the runtime configuration and,
>  maybe, simple manual database setup (calling the right scripts to
>  initialize the database).
>
>  I am sure that many Linux distribution will include usable Bacula
>  packages (not limited to single database engine like sqlite or mysql)
>  when multiple database support in Bacula will be ready.
>
>  Greets,
>         Jacek
>
>
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