[asterisk-users] Realtime on Asterisk 1.2.24

[Brian Capouch]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> 
> 
> I *STRONGLY* recommend that you do NOT use realtime extensions.  If you
> want a dynamic dialplan, the correct way to do it is to segregate your logic
> and your data (via something like func_odbc), not to stick all of your logic
> into a database.
> 

Should this be taken as a warning to us happy realtime users that it is 
deprecated, and/or likely to go away?

If that's where it's headed (once upon a time a discussion to "do it the 
right way" was scheduled for the Atlanta confab last spring, but the 
topic never emerged there AFAIK) then it ought to be officially 
deprecated so those of us who use it extensively can begin to plan our 
migration to other ways of solving the problems that realtime seems (at 
least to me) to solve nicely.

I can deploy large numbers of servers with complex and coherent 
dialplans with pretty much zero effort on a given new client, and I can 
also effect system-wide changes across my servers with a single database 
update.

I find it to be a powerful and useful feature.  But if there's a better 
way to do it I'm willing to learn.  To my knowledge there are no 
Postgres ports of ODBC running yet under openWRT, and so I am using the 
PG module to access my information.  At the moment func_odbc wouldn't 
seem to get the job done for me as per your suggestion above.

B.

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