Re: [boost] Interest in an ODBC library?

From: Brock Peabody (brock.peabody_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-23 20:23:51

> On Behalf Of Corwin Joy
 
> I think we should support both an input iterator and a random access
> iterator.

I think I understand why there are problems with any iterator more
powerful than an input iterator and I agree.  I don't understand what
benefit there is to supporting anything besides input iterators though.
I've always used databases that provided random access, for instance,
but I can't think of anything I've ever done with a database that
couldn't have been done with just input iterators.  To keep things
simple I'd suggest just supporting input iterators.

If we do support random access iterators, then the database library must
either be templatized or have two sets of begin/end functions, one of
which may fail at runtime.  I think making it a template would be
better.