Well, my thought is that we use the DBI module and have a global variable $DATABASE that stores the type of database the user has. That way, they just input the name of the database and if DBI supports it, we're ready to roll. The problem then becomes ensuring that we only implement functions that all dabases can use, or develop separate routines for each database. This can be a hassle.

If the user only has CSV available, we'll have performance issues to deal with if the database grows significantly. We also wouldn't also wouldn't support transactions as many dabases (CSV and MySQL, for example) do not support them. Of course, for a small-scale indexing application, these may not be significant concerns.

Hmm... I could go on for hours. This will have to be dealt with in whatever means we come up with for communication on this project.

In reply to RE: RE: RE: Community Teaching Project by Ovid
in thread Community Teaching Project by jcwren

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