[Asterisk-Dev] MYSQL application

[Chris A. Icide]

On 11:52 PM 8/1/2004, Holger Schurig wrote:
 >> I coded a new Asterisk application called MYSQL which is similar to
 >> application PGSQL but works with MYSQL. The syntax of the application
 >> is:
 >
 >I vote for *NOT* including this in Asterisk.
 >
 >It's cute and nice and probably works, but instead of 10 different
 >application commands like
 >
 >   MySQL(...)
 >   PostgreSQL(...)
 >   SQLite(...)
 >   Informix(...)
 >   Oracle(...)
 >
 >we need something better, more generally working. There is actually talk
 >about this, maybe you get in contact with anthm or bkw on
 >irc.freenode.net, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk
 >

While I understand the concern of too many 'vendor' specific 
implementations, I applaud the inclusion of 'query', 'insert', etc. 
commands into the asterisk dialplan versus through an AGI.  If the general 
consensus is to move this into ast_data, then that is good as well, as long 
as the more useful database functions are not lost in the process.