Re: [GNUe-dev] New Branch and Unicode patches

[Jason Cater]

Hi Jan, 

>   1. is it possible to make all drivers call a default encoding method?
> F.e. make postgresql Connection class call DBSIG2.connect method first.
> That would help parsing standard connection parameters like "encoding".
> I dunno if it is possible to use the __init__ call instead of the
> connect call.

Most definitely.  I've been trying to avoid modifying the subclasses'
__init__, though, so if you need it to happen before .connect(), we should
probably add an .init() that the main __init__ calls.  If we have the
subclasses with their own __init__, it becomes much harder to change what
is passed in to the classes on creation. 

Incidentally, .connect() gets called before any activity happens with the
GConnection, so I say we try it there, but if we run into problems, move
it into an .init(). 

>   2. Could we add a "close" method to the connection object, as that
> would be needed for appserver to allow to open one connection per
> session (i.e. better support for commit/rollback)

Yes, I was actually planning on this, but had not thought it all the way
through. I think this is the logical place for it. 

-- Jason