[asterisk-users] Realtime on Asterisk 1.2.24

[Alex Balashov]

Or just generate config files (or parts of config files) from a 
database dynamically.

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Brian Capouch wrote:

> 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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