[Asterisk-Dev] RE: MYSQL application

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Monday 02 August 2004 21:46, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> ODBC is horribly inefficient.  I wouldn't go near it.  Perhaps a
> more generic interface would be better.  Something like the
> following:

How hard will even a busy 8-PRI box hit the DB?  I can't imagine ODBC being 
less efficient than accessing a large flat file!  I will come forward right 
now and say I don't have any hard numbers myself (hence my reason for 
asking), but let's not talk efficiencies on a stable, proven DB abstraction 
system until they start to become the bottleneck... 

> The various "database drivers" could be implemented as loadable
> modules, much like the codecs and applications etc.

Isn't this pretty much how ODBC works anyway?  You're just moving the 
abstraction to another place (and having to write it yourself now, too).

Regards,
Andrew