[PD] Question about SQL Placeholder Implementation

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote:

> Yes, I know that these things can be stored in a typeless manner, but the
> functions that bind the SQL statement with their placeholders can be of any
> type, as there are functions for the various datatypes.

Ok, cool then. :)

> This is not an issue of how the user sees these things, it is how the C code
> interfaces with the database.

yes.

> SQLite does. MySQL appears to as well. And yes, it is possible to just 
> force everything to be a string/c-string and be done with it. SQLite 
> actually stores everything as a string anyway, despite the defined types 
> in the create statement.

I think that it's plenty good if you have separate calls for when an atom 
is a float and when an atom is a symbol. It's not any more extra code and 
I don't think that it's a good idea to use atom_string anyway.

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