Re: [boost] database library (was Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting)

From: Chris Frey (cdfrey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-28 21:08:43

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:48:20PM -0700, Jeff Garland wrote:
> As much as I agree ODBC would be nice, I think the fact that there are 4
> bindings (pending reading the code) basically demonstrates that there is an
> appropriate abstraction layer to allow different databases to plug in.

I'm a little late to this thread, but I wouldn't underestimate the value
of including ODBC.  ODBC is almost insanely flexible (and insane too) :-)
There are ODBC drivers from flat files to Oracle, and that's a lot of
territory.

- Chris