[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk community input: FreeTDS (cdr_tds.c)or unixODBC (cdr_unixodbc.c) ?

[Erik Anderson]

> Something that may need to be thought out, we seem to run into this
> database interface problem regularly enough. Is it time that the
> database access get moved to a resource and then the extensions
> app_sql_postgres.c could be made into just a sql app that works with any
> backend database. Also the CDR stuff could use the same interface to
> write out it's logs. Of course the biggest problem I see is that there
> isn't a fully set up perl DBI/DBD drivers for C yet. The libdbi library
> is still short a few critical drivers for what has been mentioned here,
> specifically CSV and MS SQL.

Sorry [Steven Critchfield].  Are you saying to use libdbi versus unixODBC?
I do not understand what your recommendation/suggestion is.

unixODBC is probably just 1 means to an ends so multiple Databases can be
used for CDR records.

Erik