[Freeswitch-users] Changes to how ODBC, SQL, etc works

[curriegrad2004]

ODBC's there for this reason. Why invent more wheels when we already
have that wheel sitting around?

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Anthony Minessale
<anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Plus as a friend of mine used to say: "It's not MY sql its YOUR sql!"
>
> It is a fact that we have an incredible amount of bugs come up that end up
> being mysql+odbc memory errors and thread safety issues.
> I would be concerned with more blame falling on us of we had the code deeper
> into our core.
>
> I would not condone adding any more db support unless we we architected it
> to use db modules so we could still properly blame it on mysql when it was
> not working.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>> While this may solve the issue... This does not address a number of other
>> issues
>>
>> A) 90+% of the primary FreeSWITCH developers use PostgreSQL primarily...
>>
>> B) There is that whole threadsafe vs non-threadsafe mysql client lib
>> issue,
>> so we would have to come up with a way in the build system to detect which
>> we have, and never use the non-thread safe one... (if we don't do this,
>> the
>> code would never be stable as we could never know for sure which one
>> actually got detected and linked against)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/3/12 1:40 AM, "Gabriel Gunderson" <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:55 PM, curriegrad2004
>> > <curriegrad2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Quite impossible. The reason is because of the license that the MySQL
>> >> libs are licensed under. iirc, they are GPL licensed and they are not
>> >> compatible with the MPL that FreeSWITCH uses.
>> >
>> > I've got PostgreSQL, so I've got all I need :) But, it seems like this
>> > legal issue is easily resolved:
>> >
>> > http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/
>> >
>> > Anyway, I'm not a lawyer or even a very thorough reader ;)
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Gabe
>> >
>> >
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